On Thu, February 21, 2008 4:31 pm, SJS wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:09:02PM -0800: >> >> On Thu, February 21, 2008 4:03 pm, SJS wrote: >> > Then I think you're doomed. If they're forcing you to use a proxy >> > server, then they've presumably locked down all outgoing traffic from >> > your subnet except to the server(s). (Incoming traffic too, but >> that's >> > only to be expected.) >> >> Can I try the port 80 trick? "I'm just an innocent packet going out to >> ping a return of very important ... umm .... MARKETING information -- >> yeah, that's the ticket -- marketing information from a web server I >> know >> in Point Loma." > > Sure. Try anything. > > I'd bet a nickel that it doesn't work unless you set up a tunnel over > HTTP; part of the point of having a proxy is to filter the content, and > random binary data is a good candidate for filtering. > > Be prepared to CYA when the network guys come to purge your computer > of whatever virus or trojan they're convinced is running on your system. > > -- > Have you tried port 23?
Why 23? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
