Ok first, what’s Identd?

Identd or Ident daemon is a program that listens on port 113 that helps identify the users of a particular TCP Connection. In my knowledge, Idents are usually used on *nix systems. If you have experienced using *nix systems, and chatting on IRC, your ident will be your username. Well it depends on the system.

Anyways, let’s get down to the point. I do enable Identd on my mIRC because of one reason, to be able to oper-up on the server which I have o:line at. Although Idents with a “~” prefix on it would be fine but I like my Ident without the prefix, much more professional for me.

Ok now, my home router which is free on PLDT myDSL plans, it’s a ZyXEL P-660-D1 modem that I converted into router mode. Router mode is kinda cooler for me because I don’t get to dial whenever I want to go online, it dials automatically when turned on and I also have set it to have a nail-down connection, so I can stay online 24/7.

Ok here it is. First, go to your browser and browse to 192.168.1.1 (Default IP address for most modems). It will display a login form, and login with a default password which is 1234.

After you have logged in, go to Network>NAT>Port Forwarding and select a Service Name to User Defined

After you’ve chosen the service name to User Defined, the page will refresh with a new set of entries for your service. Now check the Active check box, input in a service name, port 113 on both start and end ports, and the IP address of your PC, I’ve set my router to serve DHCP so the router has given me the 192.168.1.2 IP Address, so that’s what I’m going to use. then press apply.

That’s it, you’re done on the router side. now go to your mIRC client and go to the options panel, then go to Connect>Identd. Check enable Idnetd Server check box, then click OK and that’s it.

Enjoy

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