[p2p-hackers] ICMP tunneling

[Alex Pankratov]

 > Alex (pankratov), do you have any experience with Hamachi on this tip?

No, not with Hamachi. Implementing ICMP tunneling on Windows
requires writing NDIS/IM driver or an equivalent and it is an
absolutely royal pain in the butt to support. In other words
it is somewhat hard to justify :)

Alex

Travis Kalanick wrote:
> Doing a bunch of traveling recently in Asia (adventures blogged here: 
> http://blog.redswoosh.net <http://blog.redswoosh.net/>), I’ve found 
> myself in many situations where I’ve had to purchase wireless Internet 
> access, quite often at double or triple the prices seen in the States.
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> Before paying however, I am almost always able to do a DNS look-up and 
> sometimes even ping remote hosts, though normal Internet traffic over 
> port 80 (and various other ports) is blocked.
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> It got me to thinking about ICMP tunneling around these wireless “toll 
> booths” so I could travel Asia and even the states without having to 
> communicate over those popular ports that cost money to communicate over.
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> Maybe something could be coded up to tunnel over ICMP to a proxy server 
> (or proxy peer), that then translates communication back to the intended 
> protocol and port and forwards communication along.  It seems that at 
> least theoretically, with raw sockets and promiscuous settings, even on 
> Windows machines, this should be possible.
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> Anybody have experience with tunneling over this widespread, but often 
> forgotten protocol and port?  Could it also be useful for NAT traversal 
> in extreme conditions? 
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> Alex (pankratov), do you have any experience with Hamachi on this tip?
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> Travis Kalanick
> Red Swoosh, Inc.
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> Blog – http://blog.redswoosh.net <http://blog.redswoosh.net/>
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> High quality video without bandwidth costs!
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