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Hello averyone!
I'm a college student and have been using my home VPN sever and Hotspot Shield to bypass the college firewall in order to access resriced content (Facebook etc). However, as of today, IT have blocked VPN tunnels (blocked all ports used by L2TP, PPTP & IPSec).
Does anybody have a reasonably easy, alternate solution to bypass my college's firewall?
Thanks in advance
Joe
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
There are four main types of VPN - PPTP, L2TP over IPSec, IPSec aka. Cisco IPSec and SSL. As you have stated your IT department appears to be blocking the first three types.
However SSL VPN connections look to your network just like any other SSL traffic and as SSL is used to access secure websites it generally cannot be blocked over zealous network admins. 😉
Therefore you need to look at setting up an SSL VPN system instead.
Note: You cannot use the built-in Apple VPN client to connect to an SSL VPN server. Generally the SSL 'client' is either a Java application or provided by the maker of the SSL VPN server, e.g. Cisco, SonicWALL, Juniper, etc.
There are four main types of VPN - PPTP, L2TP over IPSec, IPSec aka. Cisco IPSec and SSL. As you have stated your IT department appears to be blocking the first three types.
However SSL VPN connections look to your network just like any other SSL traffic and as SSL is used to access secure websites it generally cannot be blocked over zealous network admins. 😉
Therefore you need to look at setting up an SSL VPN system instead.
Note: You cannot use the built-in Apple VPN client to connect to an SSL VPN server. Generally the SSL 'client' is either a Java application or provided by the maker of the SSL VPN server, e.g. Cisco, SonicWALL, Juniper, etc.
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