On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Rishabh.rammstien <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> >> I am a visiting student at iit delhi. Ssh, ping etc don't seem to be >> working on the lan here because of the proxy I assume. > > > Its not working on LAN. Even I faced the same problem but it is working fine > on wifi I dont know why. > >> >> For any non-browser application e.g. Skype, GoogleTalk, wget etc. you will >> have to set the proxy as per the application requirements. You can get the >> proxy server name, IP and port from the successful login screen. Note that >> you will have to keep the successful login screen open. >> >> I was able to get dropbox and skype working using manual proxy in their >> preferences. How to I configure ssh, ping etc to work over the lan proxy? > > Yes skype works both on wifi and LAN. Even Bittorrent or any torrent client > works only on wifi.
The ip address range 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 is reserved for private network only. You can't have a public ip address in this range. If you are using LAN, you might be using 10.x.x.x and 172.x.x.x or 192.x.x.x over WiFi your local ip address. Whatever proxy you are using, is blocking connection to private network because of its reserved use. In case of Skype, the application has inbuilt proxy feature which might not be blocking connection to reserved private network. -- Sanpreet Singh http://sanpreetsing100.blogspot.in/ -- -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
