[mackid97140]

Ok i'm at a christian school that has a internet content filter. It filters out anything from violence to games to Chat rooms. Evidently it is filtering out irc useage. He is willing to open any ports or do anything to make irc work if i know what it is. What can i do to make it so irc can connect to a server. Is there a port i can open or a proxy setting I can change. Any changes are made on the network server. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[mackid97140]

come on, there has to be some kind of answer...

[ghporter]

I'm not big on IRC, but I think it depends on which client you're using. There are a bunch of different clients out there, so your question is pretty broad. Can you narrow it down a little?

[kampl]

IRC servers generally run on TCP ports 6667-6669. If they are using your average stateful firewall they just need open those ports outbound through the device(s) from the local network. I don't have any experience running IRC proxies, so it may be a little more involved in this network's case, but they could be doing the same kind of filtering you're talking about with a stateful firewall and a CVP server which would make this fairly simple to accomplish.