Firewalls + gaming

Eron

My network has a firewall running (hardware), stopping me from accessing practicaly any ports (bar the usual 23 etc.)....

I have read practicaly all the threads to do with these sort of situations in colleges, universities etc. but all of them seem to turn into flames between the college admins and the students

Does anyone know any programs for bypassing the firewall, or finding a tunnel through?

(for RPmudding/ counter-striking etc.)

Eron

Gerry

I think there is such thing as a half life proxy. It would have to be run on a windows machine outside the firewall. Fire it into google there.

wish

thats the usual problem with tunneling

You need a machine on the outside.....

Eron

I was using a program at a college recently named "Through the fire".... It was incredible, I must say, it let you access practicaly anything through the firewall...

One minor, or well, major problem, the site that hosts the download is closed, and reopening soon... they toke down the online files, so I cant download it...


I have been looking on google but there is an albumb named "Through the fire" and it is taking up the percentage of the pages...


Eron - Will find something, hopefuly

Kali

try httptunnel... a registered version (something like $5 a month iirc) is one of the best and reliable ways of getting through a firewall... most people I know in college are subscribed and use it with audiogalaxy non-stop, presumably it'll do the job for games just as well.

Eron

I think I am gona keep looking for this "through the fire" one, I have had no luck so far (bar a few "how to use but not where to download" pages)....

I have used it before and know for a fact it works, and its free....


Eron - Still searching

Eron

Ok, I downloaded a "Half-Life Proxy"....

Now one problem, I havent a clue how to use it...

I want to access (port) 3791, with the ip of 18.98.3.14

What would I do to gain access to that?

Eron - Growing inpatient with firewalls...

phoenix2181

just a quick quetion if I used http tunnel in work to say down load mp3's from morpheus etc is it easy enough for admins to catch me???

Kali

Phoenix - can't really answer that but admins wouldn't/shouldn't realise a thing.. all your connections are on the http port (80), which isn't usually logged, and even if it is connections are to a remote server (which then forwards you to the morpheus(or whatever) port on the remote-client machine)... all depends on the admins policies of checking web-access logs and bandwidth-usage (its wise to limit bandwidth to ~50% of the max. available)

I can't underestimate the importance of registering http-tunnel though.. the free version limits bandwidth and you're limited to one of their servers, I don't know the availability of cracks/keys on the net but I doubt they're too easy to come across.

Kali

Originally posted by Eron
Ok, I downloaded a "Half-Life Proxy"....
Now one problem, I havent a clue how to use it...
I want to access (port) 3791, with the ip of 18.98.3.14
What would I do to gain access to that?

Eron - Growing inpatient with firewalls...

I think there is such thing as a half life proxy. It would have to be run on a windows machine outside the firewall

That answers your question
Half-Life board is a better bet if you have any further queries on that tho.

Eron

Should have been paying more attention, sorry Kali.

Sadly it has been no use, a day of searching and I have found nothing on this subject... I will check this thread every time I log on the net, hopefuly something will come up... Thanks for the information and support guys, but it looks like my firewall wins this duel

Eron - Still Searching

Nietzschean

anyone know if UDP packets are supported by http-tunnel? as that would be the requirement for cs

Nietzschean

nevermind found the answer around their site

Eron

I eventualy got the program, I know there are a few of you out there with the same problem, send me a PM if you want it and I will e-mail it to you or something...

Eron