tunnel traffic but not through openvpn's port 1194

cybergurken

Hi guys

I tried to think of the most descriptive heading but it is kinda difficult describing my problem

So in short, my university has blocked quite a number of its ports, however, only left 22, 23(filtered), 80, 443 open...

I have been setting up my ssh server with CentOS but I cant solve this one problem

Is it possible to send traffic through 80 or 443 to my server and afterwards (past the uni -> vpn connection) allow it to go back to its own port?

Any help would be appreciated!!!
Thnx in advance

p.s. I dont know if my server.conf, etc. files will be nessasary for this problem

cybergurken

thank you for your response debbie10t

you see, I have already "bought" a vpn from private internet access, I am using that now, but the connection is so d@mn slow

on the other hand, the university is very uncaring in that sense, to get something done by htem takes 1. forever and 2. hopefully even gets look at

it is a matter of time till I figure it out but advice on how to tunnel all traffic from local host to remote vpn server via port e.g. 443/80 would be appreciated

And I would like to specialize in networking and pentesting for my honours... so its inevitable...

re: problem: should I open port 443 in the iptables, shoud I install extra software, advice would be helpful

cybergurken

my crystal ball tells me you will be back 😃

Yes, they were right...🙂

So, I can across a linux package that proviedes ecapsulation on port 443, it needs client and server installations... and after all these issues, I asked the ISP to reload CentOS, so I will wait for you advice on these 4 questions...

[1]
But something I do not fully understand, my VPS server connects via 1194, but it is blocked by the Uni, I tried changing this to 443 in the server and client.conf files and opened port 443 on the firewall (a script something like

iptables -A xxxxx port 443 -j ACCEPT

), and when I restarted the openvpn with

service openvpn restart

it stoppped [ok] and start [failed], reason, when I changed the ports back to 1194, stoppped [ok] and start [ok], why???

[2]
when I enter

openvpn /etc/openvpn/server.conf

, it prints out data but it is almost as if it doesnt finish, it intializes but then hangs, so I end up needing to press ctrl + z...is it supposed to be like that???

[3]
So, what will the prerequisites be if I would like to setup my vpn and tunnel traffic from my side through port 443 and out by the VPN???

[4]
When installing openvpn and all prerequistites and dependancies, it doenst install easy-rsa, so I need to download it from GidHub under the file name master.zip, but I am not sure if that could be the cause of all my errors, apparently openvpn does not install easy-rsa anymore(not part of the package - source google), what do you think, error on my side?

btw. q3 is the essence of the post, be very descriptive when specifing packages, etc.

Thnx in advance