Tunnels - HTTP and UDP

[MSRez]

Hi there,

I connect to the internet through a VPN, but a lot of services are port blocked. I have setup an HTTP tunnel to get around the problem but where UDP traffic is concerned I'm no better off. Is there such a thing as a UDP tunnel that I could setup and use that works with multiple applications?

Many thanks

 

[pansophic]

There are numerous UDP tunnel applications out there. In fact, you are using one of them already, the VPN. A simple google search reveals several.

Of course you know that you are destroying your organization's transitive trust by tunneling applications through the VPN. The reason that services are blocked over VPNs is to protect the internal network from external threats. You are putting holes in that protection by tunneling traffic that should and would be blocked.

If there are legitimate purposes for needing the ports opened, you should contact your IT department and state your case. If there are not, and I suspect that there are not, you should not compromise their security model, utilizing their resources, for your own personal enjoyment. It is because of these types of abuses that so many IT departments become totalitarian.


pansophic