There's a FreeBSD IRC bot written by S.Lyubka & M.Tretjyakov. I was trying to port it to Linux, but since I'm not a Linux programmer and I was writing it with closed eyes sitting on Windows and testing with Line and though SSH access on another Linux PC, it's almost finished except it doesn't work properly. There're some problem with sockets functions and I certainly don't know how to solve them. If you have some free time and will to help, check the source out, please.

Maybe a bump would get this noticed? I have special interest in the outcome.

The problem with the "connect" call is that the sockaddr_in structure should look like this:

sin_len: db 16 ; sizeof(sockaddr_in)

sockaddr_in:

sin_family: dw 2 ; AF_INET

sin_port: dw 0x0c1a ; htons(6667)

sin_addr: dd 0x411036c3 ; htonl(172.16.3.21)

sin_pad dq 0

With this change, the program was able to establish a connection with 195.54.16.65:6668, and receive the logon messages.

-- Chuck

Thanks, man! That really helped.