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+layout: forum
+title: 'Re: Security'
+grand_parent: Forum Posts
+parent: Bitcoin Forum
+nav_order: 172
+date: 2010-07-10 12:58:02 UTC
+original: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=240.msg2132#msg2132
+---
+
+# Re: Security
+
+---
+
+```
+Re: Security
+July 10, 2010, 12:58:02 PM
+
+I'll start thinking about how to do this.
+
+At the moment, you can kind of use -connect.  You can use -connect to make it connect to local computers on your LAN, like -connect=192.168.0.100.  If you start it out blank and don't let it connect to the main network, the difficulty is still at the original low difficulty.  If you've port-forwarded though, then outside nodes might still connect inward to you.
+
+With -connect it still uses IRC, do you think it shouldn't get on IRC when you're telling it to only connect to specific nodes with -connect?  The main scenario for -connect is where you have a server farm, with two connected to the network and the rest connected to the first two.  In that case, you wouldn't want the -connect computers on IRC.
+
+void ThreadIRCSeed(void* parg)
+{
+    if (mapArgs.count("-connect"))
+        return;
+```