Application Port, etc?

[Dymerius]

I'm trying to set up the HTTP-Tunnel Client to bypass my school's firewall for EQEmu. I posted a topic a few weeks ago about what port number(s) eqemu uses and I think the final verdict was 9000 UDP or something? I don't know. I'm really unfamiliar with this type of thing. I'm not even positive if that is the right port number. I'm really not sure what I'm messing with in the settings of this program, so I figure I'd ask here. My question is pretty simple:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dymerius/HTTPTUNNEL.jpg

What should I put here to make EQEmu playable? Lol.

Any and all help is very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

[WildcardX]

I hope your Major isnt in Computer Science... :-P

[WildcardX]

oh, to answer your question. Generally speaking, its advisable to open up ports 7000-9000 for BOTH TCP and UDP. However, you can tailor this down a lot to only exactly what you really need by knowing whats going in your boot5zones.bat.

[WildcardX]

As for the HTTP tunnel part, I believe how that works is your app you got there will recieve stuff like TCP port 9000 and retransmit it as TCP 80, which does get it out your schools firewall, BUT hehe ....


.... I think you need someone else to recieve your TCP 80 traffic from that app and re-transmit it as its real packet, like TCP 9000.. I might be wrong about this, so you might still be in luck, but I dont think i am.. hehe

But for the sake of your in-school entertainment, I hope someone corrects me :-)

[Dymerius]

I hope your Major isnt in Computer Science... :-P

Lol. It's IT, actually. Don't count me out yet, though. I haven't really taken any tech courses. And believe me, I wouldn't have posted here unless all of my previous attempts to get this thing to work hadn't failed miserably. :)

[jillmatik]

Bad things will come of this thread..

Are you looking to connect to your home server from school, or connect to a eqemu server you've hosted at school from home?

Http tunneling typically requires the application at both ends. Is your school running a proxy server for internet access? Do you know the proxy servers address?

[Dymerius]

No proxy.

And I'm just trying to connect to a server from school ;o i have a box on the outside that I can put EQEmu on. Just kinda' unsure how this works. heh

Thanks for the help.

[jillmatik]

Well your best bet is consulting whatever product you're using's documentation. Once you know the ports it's just a matter of application configuration. Typically HTTP tunnels are a bit sluggish so I'm curious to hear how it runs for you.

What product are you using?

[Dymerius]

http://www.http-tunnel.com/html/solutions/http_tunnel/client.asp

This stuff doesn't make much sense to me. I'm slowly getting it figured out though.

Thanks once again for the help.

[jillmatik]

While there are other free products out there.. this looks like a pretty decent application at a glance. Check their bandwidth limitations and make sure you're not going to exceed them. This would eliminate needing another socks2http application on the other end, as their servers perform this function for you.

Not sure on the rules here for linking to other boards.. but here is their guide to setting this program up for WoW. I imagine it's a similar setup.

http://www.http-tunnel.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=171

Here's the guide for setting up Sockscap to make this work:

http://www.http-tunnel.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=116

They have pretty extensive forums.. check their site. From what I read.. there's gonna be lag problems unless you upgrade to the high bandwidth service. Good luck.

[Dymerius]

Yea, I'm currently using their high-bandwidth. Mainly for P2P. Yum..

Thank you for the links ;)