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Question about data available to network management (aussie.zone)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by tuff_wizard@aussie.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello this isn't strictly 'selfhosted' material but there seems to be a lot of networking knowledge in this group.

I'm thinking of leveraging my universities network to assist in downloading "Linux ISO's" via torrent. I thought a cool little project would be and old rasberry pi with a battery pack, wifi radio and an external hdd in a box would be cool.

Considering I have to use a university supplied email and password, unique to me, to connect to the wifi (only once then it connects like normal). How obvious will it be that I am downloading "Linux ISO's"? I'd definitely be running a VPN as a base level of privacy.

Also if there is a better community for this please point me in the right direction. Reddit's adds were annoying but it was definitely easier to stumble onto relevant subreddits.

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't need to see the traffic inside the VPN. They only need to see that there's a VPN at all.

[–] d_ohlin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I get that - I was just confused at your "torrents would be detected" comment. I understand using a VPN would be visible and may be against whatever TOS they have.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, torrents without a VPN will be detected. Torrents inside a VPN won't be detected, but the VPN itself will.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if VPN traffic is on a non-standard port?

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's still VPN traffic and will be detected as such.

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not really, if it's on TCP 443 it will look no different than a typical HTTPS traffic.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's where you're wrong, bucko. A true tunnel over HTTPS, yes, but if you use IPSec on 443 it will still look like IPSec.

And if the org requires a CA cert or agent installation as part of their AUP, they can decrypt the HTTPS tunnel and see it as a VPN.