Bypass A Firewall?

[deerslayer]

I want to serve BF1942 games from my server, but no one outside the university (Western Illinois University) can get to the IP. Is there any way I can get past the school's firewall to make this work?

 

[Macro2]

What kind of firewall does your school use?

 

[stash]

Talk to the schools computer people...trying to circumvent a firewall without permission is usually grounds for disciplinary action.

 

[deerslayer]

I have no idea what kind of firewall it is.

Yeah, good point STaSh, I don't need to be getting myself in any trouble. I'm guessing they have all incoming ports blocked 🙁

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

I will be astonished if they'll give you the time of day. 🙂 The whole point of the firewall is to protect the school's network...

 

[narzy]

topic police...topic police...all parties please step away from the keyboard with your hands on top of your heads...voodoo topic detected...

 

[spidey07]

Quick basics (for all the junior hackers on line)

1) Internet hosts need to be able to reach you via a public IP address
2) If those hosts can reach you then they can try to connect to your application on a tcp/udp port
3) If one or two cannot be met then you no-talkie-talkie

Firewalls are generally designed to prevent this kind of stuff from happening. #1 firewall rule - let a few apps out and don't let any in.

In order to bypass the firewall you would need a way to meet the first critereia (not gonna happen), then you'd need to meet the second (not gonna happen), then if you got the address translation right, and the port right, and the routing right, then you may be able to talk.

Next step, tunnel or forward traffic into the network on an inbound port that is allowed, then work on the translation by programming the right interface.

hacking 101

🙂

 

[amdskip]

We can't even run a simple ftp server to anyone off campus. Sucks they have to go to such meassures sometimes.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: amdskip
We can't even run a simple ftp server to anyone off campus. Sucks they have to go to such meassures sometimes.

Yes it sucks for you, but it is incredibly important for the university or network.

I hear they offer these kinds of services such as running your own servers on other internet service providers. As always you get what you pay for.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: narzy
topic police...topic police...all parties please step away from the keyboard with your hands on top of your heads...voodoo topic detected...

^^^

 

[martind1]

sounds unlikely, the school probably wont open the ports for you to serve games and use up the precious bandwidth.

 

[Pulsar]

They have to do these measures specifically BECAUSE folks try to do this.

A couple servers, a couple FTP sites, and not only is the entire University's bandwidth saturated, they'll start getting cease and desist letters from the RIAA.

You won't get sympathy from anyone who runs a network, and you probably knew that before you asked.

 

[martind1]

the real problem? file sharing networks. sure they are handy but the kill shcool networks.

thats why schools need to go to a per computer network resource. pay as you go. Harder to do then its probably worht.

i do liek the schools that limit bandwidth they ahve my support.


oh well. if you need to get around the firewall for legit academic reasons (i.e. NOT a game server) i am sure you can find someone to be reasonable for you.