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Alright as you all know me and bizzle ae good friend..well he has moved to uni and the net connection there has a firewall on the LAN now who knows can to by-pass this so he can run sro

Does it let him forward any ports? No idea what that firewall would be like.

well as far as i know its a firewall on the LAN connection not the net and he can access the net just not silkroad

I have a router at home, a natural firewall that doesnt forward anything until you configure it to.

And Im not forwarding anything to my computer.

And all of the comps on the LAN can run silkroad.

Um, but if it IS a firewall problem, then theres not much you can do other than asking the network administrator to forward those ports to you.

But its highly unlikely; as said, I don't forward anything.

Um, and you know this post should be in technical help.

His problem might also be related to the same connection problems other people are having.

just a guess, but you might be able to get around the firewall with a proxy server... but judging by what most people say about them and SRO, it might not run well, so, you may have to get a paid proxy, and hope it works...

well im sure if i get some more info off him we can help him but to those who knew him ncluding you ryoko he was extreamly loyal and helpful to is friends now he needs our help and i wanna help in anyway i can


now ryoko your good with this stuff you said there nothing he can do if its an IS firewall im sure there is anything you know that can help can you tell me please

a proxy as ppl above said would work... and it's about the only way you can do it.

also... it is highly unlikely that his Uni's firewall would block Sro (well if he's in a dorm at least). if anything it's probably because joymax did their little dns thing and if thats the case then it should be fixed in a few more days.

well incase give me a link to a proxy he can run sro through

Using proxy may cause security vulnerability, so better way would be to make some gift to a guy who's responsible for network, let's say a keg of beer

well if you only use the proxy for sro then it shoulnt be too bad if you use it for general net surfing i could understand but stil i need a link to one

oh boy, I just so happen to be an all around IT expert (and hacker lol) Universities use hardware PIX's unless they're completely retarded and those are the toughest firewalls that exist. The standard setting for them at universities is the opposite of regular firewalls. They block ALL ports except the ones used. Port 80 I think is for the internetand and 6001 for Starcraft if I remember correctly so yeah, most software uses a unique port but it doesn't really matter which one SRO uses because you're not going to get it unblocked. In order, the network connection to a proxy would be computer-collegeserver-pix-proxy-SROserver so using a proxy won't help at all because the SRO data will still stop at the PIX. The only way for it to work is to drive down to starbucks, buy one of those giant cookies, and play wirelessly on their connection I suppose some sort of program or hardware out there exists for re-routing data from one port to another that isn't blocked but it wouldn't be safe and certainly not fast and might confuse the SRO servers. So yeah, try and find an outside connection otherwise there's no way.