Behind a firewall, bypass?

To the Moderator:
Firstly:
The downloading of data through P2P and sharing software is NOT illegal. The use of the downloaded data is illegal, NOT the downloading of it. I have not said I am going to use the data!

Secondly:
I am trying to bypass my University firewall, which is permitted, including the use of P2P and sharing software! I am not breaking any rules and am totally with in my logical rights to post this thread in search for help regarding my problem.

To the public:

Hello everyone,

I have been using eMule now for about a year. I have always given a good 25K up and respectable 40K down so that other can share, I have also always had at least 25GB in my shared folder. I am proud to say that I am a good eMule resident.

However, I have just moved to university where they have a strict firewall that only has ports open related to eMail, HTTP, FTP and secure connections.
As eMule runs on 4662 and 4672, this means I am unable to connect to a server and so this has taken me away from sharing files with others.

It would be much appreciated if you be so kind as to guide me as to how I can bypass the firewall. I have looked at HTTP port tunneling but this all seems a bit too complicated.
Can you recomment a service out there that would let me bypass the firewall?
Or anything else?

Thank-you.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,


Rue

First of all, I have to agree with the moderator. This crap you give about not using whatever you download is nothing but B*S, and you know it.

Anyway, if your university allows for the use of p2p, why have they closed the ports for eMule? And why would they allow for users to bypass the rules they have set up...? Sounds kinda pointless with rules on a firewall if they allow everyone to bypass them at will. Your story doesn't hold up my friend...

But on to your problem... I haven't used eMule myself, but the way I see it there are only two way to solve this problem. Either you change the port in eMule to work with a port that is allowed through the firewall, or you will just have to bite the bullet and RTFM your way to getting http tunneling to work.

Nuff said.

@madruenrg:
Behave, wtf do you think the uni has the firewall blocking ports for? So people like you can't use p2p software.


So what you're saying is you have 25GB of shared [illegal] docs,music,videos,whatever that you don't actually use? I think not.

wtf do you spend all your time downloading stuff for if you don't use it?

What, are you in pre-law? You'll never pass the bar giving out incorrect legal advice, and you will be liable for many malpractice suits.

Blimey those replies made me laugh lol. Your ignorance makes me laugh.

Regarding the laws on downloading, it is NOT illegal to download through P2P networks; it IS illegal to use the downloaded data. That is a known fact, and seeing as you did not know that, I am assuming you are not computer educated.

The University have the ports closed because it is standard policy throughout Universities in the UK, as the education administration board makes it that way. The university has no choice in the matter. I do believe it is also because of the numerous Virus and Trojan attacks that are made on those ports.

I can clearly see I have posted this thread in the wrong forum board as no replies have shown any sign of intelligence in technical issues regarding networking.

Thank-you for your time. I will share my experience here with other top PHP programmers and will make sure not to post networking questions here again.

Regards,

Rue

Hmmmm.... dunno about you guys, but if I was a moderator this guy would get kicked the f*** out of here!

What, you mean like your stupidity makes us laugh?

Erm, before you go around accusing people [like Doug of all people ], you might want to do a bit of research. See his post count? Three and a half grand? Where do you think that comes from. In my experience on these boards, Doug is a very friendly, well educated guy. You might want to hang around a boards a little longer before you try to allienate everyone on them next time...

Wtf? Care to contradict yourself any more? Which Uni are you going to? The University of Bulls**t? I am a fourth year computer science student at The University Of Portsmouth, and this is a quote from an email we are sent every single month to stop students doing what you claim to be 'legal'...

Hmm... that kind of s**t's all over your 'the uni lets us do it' crap, doesn't it!? Did you also know that it is not only you who will be punished for such offense...
...your uni would also be liable. Perhaps we should email them a link to this thread, and see what they have to say for it?

I can clearly see that you're a tw*t. This question might have started as a networking issue, and you have actually been guided to a posible solution, but you can't seriously expect to ask questions of this nature and get help on a public forum can you? Bless.

I'm sure they'll be lucky to have you help them. But I think it goes without saying that you have pretty much lost all credibility you might or might not have had on this forum, and it's not that likely that anyone's gonna want to help you out again...

btw, I've just noticed you've already posted this question before, and edwinbrains rightfully closed the thread. You're lucky he hasn't closed this one too...

p.s. Edwin, if you do come accross this, please don't close it just yet, we're having fun!

I agree. So, madruenrg, do you feel like taking the train to ban city tonight?



lol, I've only just found it. I'll leave it open for a little longer yet...

How about this dudes?

Boy this thread competes hard with that dating guy... let's see if he's a distance runner

BTW, (origional poster) you're a f**king idiot