i am trying to stop my schools lightspeed filter and when i type net view into the cmd i get all the different school files(or at least thats what it looks like) and i found lightspeed so i typed net stop lightspeed but it says the file does not exist. what am i doing wrong?
2007-04-06 13:26:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Bad news. Our school system also uses Lightspeed Total Traffic Control to limit access.
(And, by the way, it's very aggressive in what it categorizes and how it categorizes stuff -- depending on your school's IT staff... http://www.hackaday.com is categorized as "security-hacking" when it's actually a pretty neat place where people turn toothbrushes into welding torches and the like)
Lightspeed runs on your school's router. It directly monitors packets that are coming in on HTTP and blocks these packets based on their source. Proxies do not work. The >only< way to get around Lightspeed (that I've been able to come up with) is quite a bit beyond the technical scope of most.
1. You need to configure a machine >at home< running Linux.
2. This machine needs either a static I.P. address or you need to know the (actual, live, routable) I.P. address is was given dynamically (i.e., it can't have a 192.168 or a 10.anything I.P. address)
3. This machine needs to have WICKED upstream bandwidth.
4. You need to install CYGWIN on the Windows box, along with X-Support.
5. You need to install an X Window server on the linux box.
6. You need to establish a secure shell connection to the linux box from the windows box, using the -Y option to pass X-Authentication.
7. Once connected and logged in, you need to run a browser on the Linux box, and the window will open on the Windows PC at school.
This is the only way I've figured out how to do it, as the web traffic that's coming in is NOT coming in on port 80, and is not http, hence, the Lightspeed software in the router doesn't look at the packets. (They're just generic TCP packets coming in on port 22 -- and encrypted, too, which is nice.)
By the way, I'm not a student, I'm a teacher at a high school.
Lightspeed is incredibly hard to circumvent.
2007-04-06 13:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by Roland A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Trying to illegally bypass a filter on a system that you neither own nor pay for.
2007-04-06 20:30:54 · answer #2 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Leave him alone Cirric, he didn't ask for lip.
2007-04-06 20:45:51 · answer #3 · answered by ravenclawajg 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋