From 37f7caf7f398bfab7acffe3e0dda443ed2ca041d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Lu <james@overdrivenetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:57:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Skip gIRC built-in rate limiting (irc) (#1164)

By default, gIRC rate limits all outgoing messages.
Since matterbridge already implements message throttling, this is extra layer of throttling is not necessary.
---
 bridge/irc/irc.go | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bridge/irc/irc.go b/bridge/irc/irc.go
index 6e97996f..6db062ce 100644
--- a/bridge/irc/irc.go
+++ b/bridge/irc/irc.go
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ func (b *Birc) getClient() (*girc.Client, error) {
 		SSL:        b.GetBool("UseTLS"),
 		TLSConfig:  &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: b.GetBool("SkipTLSVerify"), ServerName: server}, //nolint:gosec
 		PingDelay:  time.Minute,
+		// skip gIRC internal rate limiting, since we have our own throttling
+		AllowFlood: true,
 	})
 	return i, nil
 }