Vince013

Hey guys, my name is Vince and I'm attending a private boarding school. My story is very simple: I bought Limewire Pro and downloaded it onto this laptop, using this little money I had. It's my second day here at school and I just found out that Limewire is blocked by my the firewall of my school's network. I was left with dispair because It seems to me that I just wasted 20 bucks.

As I was looking through the forums on this website I found hints that there is hope for bypassing my administrator's firewall.

I found this quote from searching: "Also, most college networks block sharing and/or Gnutella. Although there are ways to get around it, I'm not about to tell you how" (http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...administrator).

Can you please help me bypass my administrator's firewall so that I can use Limewire Pro?

Thawonandonly

I dont know how to do this but I wouldnt suggest it because it is not the easy to trace holes in a firewall and someone who did this at my college got threatened to pay a fine. But thats just me.

Chroder

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Try that. The only thing you need is another computer you can connect to (home computer, or you can buy one for a like $8 a month, perhaps less).

You set up an SSH tunnel. Your program connects through SSH to the other computer, which then makes the outbound connection to the service you want (in this case the Gnutella network). Since theres no way for the network to know what connections are being made through the other computer (which is kinda "forwarding" data back to your computer through SSH), it can't block it.

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dragon2309

does no one else think this is slightly borderline against forum rules.... Talking about how to defeat security measures on a network... no?

dragon

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Chroder

For the record: there are many legit uses for SSH tunneling. Probably the mostly widely used is when you want to make an unsafe transaction safe (by passing it through an SSH tunnel, you encrypt all traffic between the two points). This kind of technique is used to secure public wifi, secure unencrypted VNC etc.

I used this at my friends house. His ISP filtered traffic and limited the speeds of DCC. This of course is no where in the terms of service (ISPs do this quite often -- Skype is an example of a service that is often downgraded), so it's faster to just encrypt the traffic.

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Vince013

Yes! I will definatly look into SSH "tunnels", as you call them. While looking at Linux, I often heard about SSH. When I tried SUSE, it wanted to block the SSH port for some reason. But yes, Chroder, thanks for responding.

Vince013

So Chroder, you are saying that, through the internet, from my laptop at school, I could connect to my PC at home through an SSH client, and get free access to the net from there? I would have to go through my administrators firewall, and although my data will be encrypted, isn't it possible that the firewall can block my SSH port?

Trizoy

Think of it like this.

Your computer at school connects to your computer at home via some enabled port. The computer at home relays the information back through this enabled port. Both computers need internet, and you will need a little bit of research done.

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SFR

my opinion is that you need to talk to your school's network administrator and convince him/her to allow Limewire through the firewall. With the current legal battles and the fact that at some point someone decided it was not safe to allow Limewire and other P2P software through the network, I do not think you will get the answer you are looking for.

As for the legality of bypassing a school or business firewall without the permission of the admin, you can get yourself fired/suspended. As Chroder pointed out, SSH tunneling can be used for legit reasons, however, I feel this is NOT one of them.

Thread Closed.

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