weechat's relay plugin Sunday Dec 15 5:22:41 2013 Configuring weechat's irc relay plugin turns out to be pretty simpl and straightforward. The great advantage over irssi's proxy plugin for sdf/sdf-eu users is that in weechat you only need one port for all your servers whereas in irssi you need a different port for each server. sdf/sdf-eu users have one available port which is their id number. To find out your port type 'id' at the terminal. You will see something similar to this: odin:~$ id uid=007(bond) gid=500(arpa) groups=500(arpa),600(MetaARPA),700(dba) Which means: '007' is the port and 'bond' is the username. Let's assume now that user 'bond' wants to use the password 'james_bond'. This way, you will understand the examples better. To begin with, start weechat-curses, connect to your networks and join your favourite channels. 1.- Inside weechat: /plugin The relay plugin should be loaded by default. If, for any reasons, is not, you can load it with: /plugin load relay Then, start the configuration as follows: /relay add irc port #Remember that your port is your id number Example: /relay add irc 007 /set relay.network.password "password" Example: /set relay.network.password "james_bond" 2.- Now on the client side: Configure your client to connect to sdf.org or sdf-eu.org through your port. Example: sdfeu.org/007 One important consideration here is to remember that since you are going to use the same port for all your servers, you have to make sure that your client sends the password in the form server:passwor You can use the PASS command for that (PASS server:password) You ha to repeat the process for each server. Examples of adding the servers with the password and connect to the /server add freenode sdfeu.org/007 -password=freenode:james_bond and then: /connect freenode /server add oftc sdfeu.org/007 -password=oftc:james_bond and then: /connect oftc /server add sdf sdfeu.org/007 -password=sdf:james_bond and then: /connect sdf Enjoy! *Notes:* - Post updated on 12/22/2013 adding memnon suggestions. Thank you. - Post updated on 12/24/2013 after re-testing on both sdf and sdf-eu.