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+++ title = "magic tunnel" author = "breadw" +++
if you want to use IRC to chat with your friends on breadpunk, but don't want to ssh in to the server every time, you can set up a magic tunnel.
all you have to do is run this command on your own computer:
ssh -N user@breadpunk.club -L localhost:6667:localhost:6667 &
replacing user with your breadpunk username
and the first 6667 with the port you want to listen on.
then, in your IRC client, create a new server with that port and connect to it. in weechat, you'd do this:
/server add breadpunk localhost/6667 -autoconnect
/connect breadpunk
further reading
this information is a shorter version of the text found on ~nick's page. breadw has also written a utility to make it easy to open tunnels, called mrgrctrnl.