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hide my ip from corporate firewall?
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vridul
My office allows only http access through a proxy server and a firewall. The network admin has decided to check and eliminate heavy downloaders by tracking down LAN IPs.

Is there any way i can hide my LAN IP from the firewall/proxy so that the admin doesn't know i am downloading?

If anyone has any other suggestions please help?
Tranc3
Umm, let's see here.

1) IP spoofing, although it's considered to be a "hostile act" by most system admins and is easy to track.

2) Have your box simply not respond to pings, which in effect would hide it from the network but also create a proverbial "black hole" which would, once again, make the sys admin VERY suspicious of you.

3) Remote connection through a proxy server outside of the company, although I'm not sure why you'd do this, as it seems you want to access the company's bandwidth.

There are more detailed ways of getting around it, some considered hostile, some not (and therefore not legally punishable:D ), but I really can't tell you how to do it unless I know exactly how your sys admin is monitoring you.

For example, here on campus we have a packet-shaper which limits our bandwidth to and from campus. In campus, however, it's through our intranet, so it's fast as . At the beginning of the year all they were using was a port blocker/limiter where it would cut off certain ports and limit bandwidth on others. All it took for me to get past it then was a re-routing of my programs to a gaming port (gaming ports have uncapped bandwidth:D :D :D ). Unfortunately, they found out soon enough and eventually switched to a packet-sniffer, which is illegal. How do I know they have a packet-sniffer?
1) Encrypted data on the right port will get full use of our bandwidth, whereas un-encrypted data on the same port will get limited bandwidth.
2) They won't admit the existence of a packet-sniffer.

Yes, I know some admins have set it up so it IS legal for them to use a packet-sniffer, however, in our contract, there was no mention of any sort of snooping.
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