[OT] Getting out from behind a corporate firewall

[Tyler Aviss]

Try talking nicely to the IT department? Perhaps you could get an exemption
from the proxy. We have some cases where we do that here, either with a
higher-level authoration account or a firewall rule.

Circumventing without authorization for personal stuff may be a good way to
reduce your term to 1 month if you get caught.

If it's really necessary to get out and not going to get hou in trouble,
then I usually connect to an outside box running openvpn on a permitted
port, or just use my smartphone (one of those city-wifi/cellular sticks
would also work well).

On 2010-05-10 8:18 AM, "Stephen" <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

In June I start work on a ten month project for a company that makes network
equipment for ISPs.

I expect that they have a very tight firewall and web proxy.

I want to be able to get out from it, of course.

Nothing more than email and accessing photography web sites that are banned
on most proxies.

I have read about httptunnel. Is this the way to go?

I will have an XP machine as client, and have a Linux server with a public
IP at home.

All thoughts welcome!

Stephen
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