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diff --git a/documentation/startup/index.markdown b/documentation/startup/index.markdown index 033c9f0..4b5dddb 100644 --- a/documentation/startup/index.markdown +++ b/documentation/startup/index.markdown @@ -526,7 +526,13 @@ Irssi proxy works fine with other IRC clients as well. **SOCKS** -Irssi can be compiled with socks support (`\--with-socks` option to configure), but I don't really know how it works, if at all. `/SET proxy` settings don't have anything to do with socks however. +Irssi can be compiled with socks support (`\--with-socks` option to configure), which requires "dante" and routes all connections through the proxy specified in the system-wide /etc/socks.conf. This method is known to have issues in Mac OS X. + +Note that `/SET proxy` settings don't have anything to do with socks. + +Using [proxychains-ng][] is recommended over recompiling irssi. + +[proxychains-ng]: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng **Others** |