Life Behind the Firewall Curtain?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday August 4, 2004 @07:23AM from the online-but-unroutable dept.

beegle asks: "After a recent move, I discovered that my only broadband option is a cable company that puts all of its customers behind a NAT box. That means that my ISP gives me a 'private' 10.x.x.x address instead of a routable IP address. I'd like to connect to my machines remotely and use software that depends on a real address (P2P, games, etc.). The ISP doesn't prohibit this, but they're not willing to help, either. I've considered setting up a VPN to a friend's network, but that seems terribly inefficient. What hardware or software would you recommend for those of us who are stuck with 'fake' IP addresses?"

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Proxy Out by kevinmf · 2004-08-04 07:33 · Score: 5, Interesting

After a couple hacking incidents and virus outbreaks, my school decided to impose a firewall on everyone which put a stop to gaming with anyone off campus. Anyway, those of us lucky enough to have a cable modem or dsl at home just set up proxys on those boxes and used SocksCap to make programs using winsock transparently go through and use the proxy instead of trying to get to the net from the firewall.
Sounds like it'd be a good solution for you to do something similar.
Game performance took a hit though, because of all the extra hops that added.