<div dir="ltr">For some strange reason, I've found high school institutions to be <i>extremely</i> *NIX-phobic. And they, or at least my particular school, seem to be becoming increasingly so. Previously I had only noticed firewalls in place which block all traffic from major Linux package managers like apt and yum, though this never affected me as I've never had an issue updating my Arch Linux installation while on the school network.<div><br></div><div>However, things appear to have changed as SSH connections are now also blocked. Before the winter holidays I could use secure shell at school to my heart's content, but now that people in my computer engineering class are beginning to use it more often so they can remotely connect to their headless Raspberry Pis (with which we're supposed to be controlling robots), the protocol has conveniently stopped working (I'm guess the board discovered this "unusual" traffic and decided to block it). I now find myself needing a way to get around this problem, or my summative project will have come to an effective halt.</div><div><br></div><div>As a suggested work-around, I tried changing the default port on the host (the pi) from 22, to 443, and establishing a connection to that port from my laptop, but the connection still times out after a few minutes. I'm wondering if, either I'm doing something wrong with the port configurations (though the verbose output from SSH would suggest otherwise), or if there is another solution to getting around the WRDSB's apparent hatred of free technology.</div><div><br></div><div>My teacher suggested that we create a subnetwork between the two machines, which I will try today, but if there are any alternative solutions, I'd love to know of them. Anyone else run into problems like this?<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Cheers,<div>Keefer</div></div>
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