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.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They don’t need to see the traffic inside the VPN. They only need to see that there’s a VPN at all.

    • d_ohlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I get that - I was just confused at your “torrents would be detected” comment. I understand using a VPN would be visible and may be against whatever TOS they have.

      • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, torrents without a VPN will be detected. Torrents inside a VPN won’t be detected, but the VPN itself will.

            • lemming007@lemm.eeEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Not really, if it’s on TCP 443 it will look no different than a typical HTTPS traffic.

              • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 year ago

                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.