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DeltaZed
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nofakelag

Post by DeltaZed »

Hello,

I've recently installed and am running unrealircd v4.0.17. It's a private server and we share a lot of code snippets on it so we're looking to disable the imposed fake lag. I've recompiled by changing this line in config.h:

#define FAKELAG_CONFIGURABLE

and adding this to my class block for clients:

class clients
{
pingfreq 90;
maxclients 20;
sendq 1M;
recvq 32k;
options {
nofakelag;
};
};

Restarted the server, it takes the config with no complaints, but everyone is still rate-limited. After several lines the ~2-second delay kicks in. Even the /oper (me) experiences this problem. The client I'm testing with is irssi and hexchat.

I understand that turning off fake lag is undesirable in the wild but this is a private server so it's not an issue (and if it is we can pummel the person causing the problem in person).

Help? I'm a noob at being an IRC operator and I have only used IRC minimally over the years, but not enough to really have a deep understanding of the protocol or the different implementations of it.

Please let me know if there's any information I can provide. Your assistance is greatly appreciated!

-DeltaZed
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Re: nofakelag

Post by Stealth »

You may also wish to check your client settings, as many clients have built-in rate limiting that gets in the way as well.
DeltaZed
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Re: nofakelag

Post by DeltaZed »

I definitely looked into irssi settings as well (which is why I tried the hexchat client, too) but couldn't find anything; well over two hours of googling and RTFMing.

Another odd tidbit: I'm using a third-party service to tie Slack into our IRC server, and the bot doesn't have the rate-limiting problem. That supports your suggestion that it could be the client. Like I said, I use IRC lightly but am not intimately familiar with it so I'm not aware of the more esoteric aspects of usage/config/etc.

I suppose I'll wander over to an irssi form and see what people there have to say.
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Re: nofakelag

Post by Gottem »

Also, unless you have funky operclasses then opers are already exempt from fakelag since all the default operclasses have the top-level privilege privacy. Is anyone connecting through ZNC perhaps? Because they also include "flood protection" to prevent you from getting killed for Excess Flood, amongst other things.
DeltaZed wrote: Sat May 26, 2018 3:39 am After several lines the ~2-second delay kicks in. Even the /oper (me) experiences this problem. The client I'm testing with is irssi and hexchat.
A quick Google for "irssi flood protection" gave me something that may be of interest. It seems it defaults to 5 commands (or "lines", since each line is actually one PRIVMSG command) per 2.2 seconds, so if your pals are getting that amount of lines at once that might the cause.
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Re: nofakelag

Post by DeltaZed »

I got that operators should be exempt from rate limits which is why I posted it as another data point.

I read through the irssi page you sent and couldn't find much of interest. In particular I did try to set cmds_max_at_once to 20, and even cmds_max_at_once to 10ms. Problem persists.

I've already downloaded the irssi source and am starting to poke around and see if I can find anything.

Thanks for the suggstions, though!
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Re: nofakelag

Post by Gottem »

Yeah I figured that, just thought I'd clarify a bit. =] I don't use irssi myself so unfortunately I'm out of ideas, but you could also join their support IRC instead of poking around the source. Will probably get a proper answer much faster that way.
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Re: nofakelag

Post by acidvegas »

See if https://supernets.org/docs/ascii-ansi-art-flooding.html helps for setting up your client to flood without throttle.
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