Possible to fix an NAT error without having access to router?

Factual Questions
1

I’m on a school network, and I keep getting NAT errors when trying to perform certain tasks. I know that I could fix the settings on my router, if I really wanted to, but I don’t have a router. The school does. And I can’t fix things.

Am I basically screwed? I can’t believe that technology actually exists that someone can’t get around.

2

What exact errors are you getting? And what leads you to think that they’re the fault of the router?

BTW I’ve set up networks for schools, and there’s no way I’d give a student that level of access.

3

My program just says Testing port xxxx… [here’s while I wait a few seconds] NAT Error.

4

Sounds to me like the school is blocking you from doing something you shouldn’t be doing anyway. What the heck are you doing port scanning?

5

No, no! I’m testing my own ports, to see if I can have connections on them.

(Port scanning means on other people’s computers, right?)

6

Sounds like you’re using a BitTorrent client like Azureus. When I have this problem I have to log in to my router and fiddle with ports so I don’t think you can get past it being on the school network. Sorry!

7

With NAT you have two IP’s the first is the publicly addressable IP which the NAT routertalks to the outside world and the second IP is the internal network IP.

Which one are you testing?

8

Heh. Hit it in 6.

Well, damn.

9

So you’re not trying to “fix things”, you’re trying to get around intentionally set blocks that your school has established? :rolleyes:

10

Well, I was vague on purpose, and I never claimed that I was trying to fix things.

On a side note, condescendingly using :rolleyes: is a great way to drive your point home.

11

Are those not your words?

It is if you’re trying to convey contempt, which I was.

12

My mistake. I went back and proofread what I said, because the construction “fix things” didn’t sound like something that I would say.

Apparently, I did.

13

Nope, you can’t get around NATs. However, BT should work fine purely in passive mode. I doubt the slowdown is significant. But any halfway decent admin should be blocking BT anyway.

14

chaoticdonkey, you should be aware that your question is in violation of the SDMB Registration Agreement.

You have been warned. Please do not do this again.

This is closed.

-xash
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