http-tunnel client works well.

John


--- Bob Axtell <engineer@cotse.net> wrote:

> Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >> So, background given, I ask the big question: 
> how do I get
> >> around this?
> >>     
> >
> > Have a similar arrangement here at the government
> lab I work at. Soon to be 
> > exacerbated by a government requirement to have
> 'approved' encryption 
> > software on all PCs before they are allowed to be
> taken off site ( see
> >
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3215887.ece
> >
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3213521.ece
> >
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3227172.ece
> >
>
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/public_law/article646385.ece
> >
>
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2873186.ece
> >
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3227938.ece
> > fro some of the news items ...)
> >
> >   
> >> I have two ideas: first, get a cellular plan that
> includes
> >> data access and hook my phone to the PC.  Use
> that for websurfing.
> >> I don't like this idea because it costs ME money
> and the web access
> >> will be slower all the time, if more reliable all
> the time.
> >>     
> >
> > Rather than doing that, get an ordinary modem and
> dial out on one of the 
> > office lines - though that may awkward if you have
> a digital exchange. That 
> > way it costs the company money, and gets across
> the idea that they lack of 
> > high speed hardware to do the filtering is costing
> them productivity.
> >
> >   
> >> Second idea: set up a VPN to my home network.  I
> figure that will
> >> be faster in the end than cellular, if harder to
> set up.  The one
> >> thing I DON'T know is whether it will bypass the
> filtering software.
> >> I'd think so, because the filter probably just
> checks http traffic
> >> on port 80, but I'm not sure.
> >>     
> >
> > Are you sure that it doesn't block other ports
> anyway? A decent firewall may 
> > block all the other ports to stop attempts at
> penetration of the company 
> > site anyway.
> >
> >   
> >> Opinions?  Other ideas?  Empathy/sympathy for my
> situation?
> >>     
> >
> > Yeah, I sympathise. Even with one of the biggest
> server farms in the UK ours 
> > still does what you describe. And along with that
> the email servers get hit 
> > with so much spam that it can sometimes take
> several minutes for an email to 
> > leave my outbox, as they get so busy. Now why the
> outgoing mail server isn't 
> > on a different machine to the incoming one is
> another matter .... 
> >
> >   
> My client uses VPN, but it seems to go down a lot...
> I don't know what 
> the cause is.
> 
> --Bob
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