Multiplayer behind a hardware firewall?

[fraggot]

My school's wireless has a hardware firewall that keeps people from torrenting, ftp-ing, and much worse; MULTIPLAYER

Is there a way to circumvent this absurdness with some technology from the year 2010?

[nituvious]

You could try using a different port, like the one MSN or Yahoo messenger uses?
This means that you can't use msn or yahoo, or aim or whatever while you're playing Nexuiz though.

[fraggot]

i ran nmap on my school wireless, and it found 1000 ports, but "All 1000 scanned ports are closed"

i just dont understand how skype works, but Nexuiz doesn't.

[merlijn]

It all depends on how the firewall is configured, they may have even blocked all UDP traffic. Also is Nexuiz able to retrieve a serverlist? Does anything show up there, but you just can't connect to any servers?

You may be able to inspect their firewall settings by using traceroute (this command is only suitable for linux/bsd):

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# traceroute -U -p 26008 81.173.19.154

It tries to probe an unused port on my server using UDP packets, and this should just return some pings. If it doesn't they likely blocked UDP altogether.

[fraggot]

thanks, so i tried to do traceroute on the nexuiz server:

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traceroute -U -p 26008 208.43.251.170

and this was the result:

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traceroute to 208.43.251.170 (208.43.251.170), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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did i do this right? (i used the server address found on the page: http://www.nexuizninjaz.com/forum/Threa ... click.html after using google to find it. i dont know if i was supposed to trace my schools server or not. nothing happened when i used my own ip.

[anindeeta]

How do I turn off my Comodo firewall and still block some applications from accessing the internet? Windows Firewall is serving me just fine, I believe. Comodo interferes with some of my programs and I just can't figure it out, so I want to disable the firewall, but still keep some applications from accessing the internet. Is this possible?
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[Yoda almighty]

@anindeeta: well, i am not sure a 100% solve for it, but I know some applications are set to "download updates automatically". you can set them to not do that. and I am sure there are other things like that you could try.

the block at my school is on a site by site basis. so pretty much every website is blocked, but I can play nexuiz just fine :p