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.
What if VPN traffic is on a non-standard port?
It’s still VPN traffic and will be detected as such.
Not really, if it’s on TCP 443 it will look no different than a typical HTTPS traffic.
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.