The below step-by-step instruction is the best, and most secure, way to link bots, and to create a botnet. Step 1 Choose a hub bot, a central bot which all other bots will link to. Step 2 Gather together all the IPs and PORTS of your other bots. Step 3 DCC CHAT your hub bot. Add each bot to your hub using the following commands:      .+bot BOTNICK x.x.x.x:port (eg: .+bot BOB 123.21.123.45:1234)      .chpass BOTNICK PASSWD (eg: .chpass BOB bobnewpass)      .botattr BOTNICK +gs (eg: .botattr BOB +gs)      .chattr BOTNICK +bfov (eg: .chattr BOB +bfov) Repeat that for all the bots you will want to link to your hub. Step 4 DCC CHAT all the bots that you will want to link to the hub. Add the hub to each of your leaf (the bots that connect to your hub) bots using the following commands:      .+bot HUBNICK x.x.x.x:port (eg: .+bot HUB 123.26.423.43:1234)      .chpass HUBNICK PASSWD (eg: .chpass HUB hubpass)      .botattr HUBNICK +ghp (eg: .botattr HUB +ghp)      .chattr HUBNICK +bfov (eg: .chattr HUB +bfov) Step 5    - That's it. Your bots will now automatically link. You have formed a botnet.