the network in my college is set up like a very paranoid network ..
where theres 6 separated networks that couldnt connect to each other ,
and 1 central network that become the center of all 7 networks. theres
a proxy farm in the central network that allows connection between the
6 networks , however, it have a crazy limitation. port 80 POST/GET
with 2MB size limit and port 443 TCP/CONNECT .. and no other protocols
allowed .. this limitation also applies to normal internet
connection.. I managed to get around that and mirrored Fedora's
repository locally for others who dont know how to sneak through the
network.
I had a very similar set-up in my university too. We did not have the
2MB size limit though. :-)
Cheers,
Debarshi
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