DDO Through Proxy?

[dragonman59]

Hello, at home i love to play ddo using wi-fi connection, but where i work, there's a proxy, which impedes us from playing...i was wondering if there is any way i could get to play without having access to the router's settings?

If you need more information to help me, say it, ill try to give you this information.

Thx

[Eladiun]

You gonna be hard pressed to try and work around a corporate firewall without specific knowledge of the firewall and help from IT. If they are tracking network traffic they will quickly see you using a lot more bandwidth than you should. If this behavior is forbidden by the IT policy, I would suggest against it as you may find yourself w/ a lot more time to play ddo from home.

[dragonman59]

Funny, i didn't say i was GOING to, just want to know if its possible, and if yes, know how.

[Eladiun]

The firewall blocks the TCP/IP ports DDO requires to create the connection. Corporate firewalls generally only allow very specific ports access to the network, ie port 80 for HTTP traffic.Without opening those ports in the firewall your only option is to trick or work around said firewall. I would look to using a proxy client to bypass the firewall.

[Newtons_Apple]

Hello, at home i love to play ddo using wi-fi connection, but where i work, there's a proxy, which impedes us from playing...i was wondering if there is any way i could get to play without having access to the router's settings?

If you need more information to help me, say it, ill try to give you this information.

Thx


You gonna be hard pressed to try and work around a corporate firewall without specific knowledge of the firewall and help from IT. If they are tracking network traffic they will quickly see you using a lot more bandwidth than you should. If this behavior is forbidden by the IT policy, I would suggest against it as you may find yourself w/ a lot more time to play ddo from home.

The proxy server and the (wireless)? router you're connecting through are probably 2 separate pieces of equipment. You're probably being blocked on multiple levels, as most companies will first use a firewall (the proxy). Then, since you're on wireless, there will be even further restrictions on what protocols are allowed to run on the wireless network and who can connect to the WAP's.

I'd suspect you'll get no help from IT. It's IT's job to keep things like this from happening - and it's their butt if restricted traffic is allowed. Not only could you be let go, but if you were to for example convince one of the network admins to allow you to play, they could be let go as well.

I know you want an answer on how to do it, but I don't see how you could and have someone not know about it. Most sizeable IT departments these days have redundant roles for the key positions - checks and balances put in place so that no one individual has complete power and knowledge of critical systems. It keeps everyone honest.

[dragonman59]

Which ports does DDO use to connect? Can those be modified?

[Slink]

omgosh go back to work. ;)

[Eladiun]

Which ports does DDO use to connect? Can those be modified?


Search and ye shall find... and no.

[Nott]

The easiest way to work around your corporate firewall is if it allows for a VPN to be established between a machine inside the network and outside, and though I don't know of specific VPNs, I would expect you can easily find one that operates (or can be configured to operate) on ports that your firewall allows -- just make the firewalled machine the initiator of the VPN connection. With that in place, if the machine inside your firewall uses something on the far end as its default gateway, as is commonly done with VPNs, DDO will probably work.

Your corporate IT staff most likely keeps tabs on your company's bandwidth needs by monitoring data flow and which machines internally are using it the most. This is an important task for them to make sure your company is buying enough service to get their needs met, as well as to look out for potentially infected machines in your network. Depending on your size and budget, there may even be automated monitors that would notice the spike in data usage from a single machine in the network, causing a series of emails to be generated so the situation can be looked into.