Using an IRC Proxy to Stay Logged in from Anywhere | Linux Today

Using an IRC Proxy to Stay Logged in from Anywhere

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 25, 2011

“If you’ve ever missed an important IRC discussion because you
happened to be between home and the office at just the wrong time,
or if you regularly log on from a number of different locations and
don’t like juggling multiple IRC nicks, then you need an IRC
proxy.

“The leading open source IRC proxy is Bip, a GPLv2 utility that
is provided as a standard offering by most Linux
distributions.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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