Diverting network blocked VPN connection

Communities Science, Engineering, & Security
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Hi guys, I just found out that my university blocks VPN connections on their network. I have a NAS array at home containing back-ups of all my desktops files so you can imagine that it would be great for me to be able to access those from university on my laptop.

I was wondering if anyone could suggest any subtle ways to bypass this security setting. If the sysadmin is at all competent he would notice any forcible behavior which would be a bad thing for me. 

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated, thanks. 

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My college blocks a large amount of ports but allows full access through say, Port 80, so I just set up OpenVPN on my PfSense box to run on Port 80, or I connect to AirVPN over TCP/80. It's worth a shot, just make sure you set it up properly to tunnel all traffic.

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Try port 443 tcp (used by https) as it's usually left completely open. Tcp 80 is most likely redirected to a "transparent" http proxy.