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by steven_kstan

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Is there anyway that I can bypass the proxy server, and connecting to the Internet in my computer?

I have tried a way by assigning the Static IP to my computer, but it still won't work!! Then i start ping the router/gateway IP, but i just get the requested time out. Yet I found that the IP address for the gateway are still remain the same, that my administrator didn't change it!

and a strange thing is when I use the dynamic or DHCP assigned IP. It won't show me the IP address of the Default Gateway, when I do ipconfig /all.

what my administrator told me is I must use the proxy server in order to connect to the Internet.

is there anyway that I can break through this??

your soonest reply, would be much more appreciated.

regards,

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by dave the computer guy

What some firewalls and proxy servers do is sit in-between your internal network and your Internet connections and creates a DMZ. This makes it harder for hackers to get into your internal network. There for the IP scheme on the router side of theproxy server would be different from your PC's IP scheme and your PC would not be able to see the router directly. If you don't have a DMZ setup there is no reason why you can't go around the proxy server strait to the router and out to the Internet though. Your best bet is to ask you administrator to explain in more detail why you can?t go around the proxy.

by neal2002

Give the url of the sites you need to access to your administrator so they can configure the proxy server to allow you access to those sites. Be careful what you are doing above can get you fired from a lot of companies.

by some guy in seattle

It sounds as if your network is set up to be a local network only, as far as TCP/IP is concerned. Without a default gateway there is no way via direct TCP/IP connections to connect to anything other than your local subnet.

In order to get to theinternet via a web browser, the proxy settings have been set in the browser configuration. On the web browser, go to Tools|Connections|LAN Settings. The proxy server settings should be there.

Despite all that, even if you did have a default gateway it's unlikely you would be able to get to the internet directly since TCP/IP routing is disabled on a proxy server (hence the name "proxy").

The only way to get around this is to have a network connection outside of the proxy server.

Hope that helps -

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