Tunneling through firewall

Hello,

I need some help. I'm away at college right now and the network
has a firewall, which doesn't allow me to use certain programs(ie
games or online poker). I need help in finding a way to tunnel under
the firewall and accessing my home computer so i can run these
programs. I'm thinking maybe CCProxy would work, but i'm not sure if
i need Socks Cap too. I don't know much about either programs or how
they work so any information will help. Thanks!

Steve

Mike wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need some help. I'm away at college right now and the network
> has a firewall, which doesn't allow me to use certain programs(ie
> games or online poker). I need help in finding a way to tunnel under
> the firewall and accessing my home computer so i can run these
> programs. I'm thinking maybe CCProxy would work, but i'm not sure if
> i need Socks Cap too. I don't know much about either programs or how
> they work so any information will help. Thanks!

With OpenVPN, you can choose any UDP (preferred) or TCP port, that will
make it through the firewall. You could even use TCP port 80, if that's
all the firewall will allow.

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Mike wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need some help. I'm away at college right now and the network
> has a firewall, which doesn't allow me to use certain programs(ie
> games or online poker). I need help in finding a way to tunnel under
> the firewall and accessing my home computer so i can run these
> programs. I'm thinking maybe CCProxy would work, but i'm not sure if
> i need Socks Cap too. I don't know much about either programs or how
> they work so any information will help. Thanks!
>
> Steve

Have a look at corkscrew <http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/>.

With the tunneled SSH you can do whatever with your home
computer.

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

(E-Mail Removed) (Mike) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> Hello,
>
> I need some help. I'm away at college right now and the network
> has a firewall, which doesn't allow me to use certain programs(ie
> games or online poker). I need help in finding a way to tunnel under
> the firewall and accessing my home computer so i can run these
> programs. I'm thinking maybe CCProxy would work, but i'm not sure if
> i need Socks Cap too. I don't know much about either programs or how
> they work so any information will help. Thanks!
>
> Steve

Before doing this check around and confirm you're not running the risk
of losing your campus account priviledges -- many (in US) are getting
pretty strict (compared to past practices) about tunneling through
their firewalls.

Also confirm that such remote game playing is worth the effort -- sure
others have tried it. The delay/latencies may be unacceptable and for
high bandwidth games you might be rate limited on campus anyway. Sure
that others on campus in your fix have tried/found an acceptable means
of getting out ;-)

regards,
prg
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