[kwlug-disc] Getting around firewalls

[Bob Jonkman]

Man, I just feel an overwhelming urge to shout "Presentation! Presentation!"

--Bob, who will try to restrain himself.


On 01/21/2015 09:10 PM, Keefer Rourke wrote:
> So I did a port scan today and tried connecting to each of the available
> ports, none of which worked. Paul, I'd say you're right about the deep
> packet inspection. It's kind of annoying that a school board that is
> preaching the importance of technology is actively blocking the use of it.
>
> I'm currently working with my teacher to get an access point up and
> running, because unfortunately ethernet isn't an option as the robot
> needs to remain untethered since it'll be moving around and doing
> things. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
>
> On 21 January 2015 at 14:18, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
> <mailto:paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>> wrote:
>
>
>     Is an old-school wired connection a possibility? Wifi is nicer, but
>     even the WRDSB shouldn't be able to block a direct Ethernet
>     cable.
>
>     If your SSH is being blocked even when you are listening on port 443
>     then the admins might be doing some Layer 7 deep packet inspection.
>
>     Lori's suggestion to set up the RaspPi as an access point is good too.
>
>     - Paul
>
>     On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:21:24AM -0500, Keefer Rourke wrote:
>     > I'm actually trying to SSH into a Raspberry Pi that is on the same network
>     > as my laptop. The only time the two machines need to connect is when they
>     > are both at the school, and in the same room, since my laptop will just be
>     > used as a remote control station to send commands to the pi to make the
>     > robot do things (that was probably poorly explained, but hopefully you get
>     > the gist). Though I'm not very familiar with the concept, I don't think
>     > port forwarding is really an option?
>     >
>
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> Keefer
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