IRC Federation: RFC2813 implementation (ngIRCd)

[alansikora]

Summary

This is a PR that covers IRC's RFC2813 implementation, using a generic approach, ready for expansion (so we can implement TS6 an others).

How to

Install ngircd and use this very basic ngircd.conf file.

You can also use irssi or any other IRC client to test the other side of the communication.

Limitations

• all the usernames get -irc and -rkt appended to avoid nick conflict problems;
• the server needs to accept nicknames longer than 9 chars;

[Hudell]

Yes

[evrardjp]

close PR? :D

[sampaiodiego]

@rodrigok we'll need to rewrite this on no-cache branch

[rodrigok]

Yes

[miwi-fbsd]

Hi,

Is there anywhere a documention how that should be setup?

[cutzenfriend]

Please create a documention on how this works!

[misse]

Hi,

Everything seems to be up and running but I'm not getting irc-channels in my channel list. Can I manually try to join an irc-channel via rocketchat somehow?

Documentation / quickstart would be greatly appreciated.

[Hudell]

You should see the IRC channels if you click on the search button on Rocket.Chat's sidebar. I'll write a documentation page about using this bridge.

[misse]

Hi @Hudell, do you have any update on this? We're not even getting it to connect and we're having a hard time debugging it.

[jorgeag68]

hello.

I can see and join channels from both sides.

But cannot see any messages on either of the sides..

I can messages on the channel if using two IRC users. But nothing passes from rocket.chat to the irc users, and also nothing arrives on the rocket.chat when typed by the irc users.

[dg-otrs]

Check this comment #216 (comment)

IRC Federation not working with config from #10113 (comment)

[dg-otrs]

So yes it can connect but no messages will be transferred via the bridge.... its so sad! as this would be a simple solution to get some better accessibility support.