> I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The > firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming > and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd > which can not access my machine behind the firewall. > But iptraf shows also that my connection is not > answered (the S bit is displayed). Don't some or most IRC servers require being able to "ident" you ?? You may have to install or enable it. Regards Hall