sir my pc(windows o/s 2000) is in educational lan. that runs on unix operating system. because of the firewall i am unable to access peer to peer service like kazaa.can u please help me to bypass the firewall. thanking u sir

In yer IE settings, try changing the proxy settings to detect automatically, this may work for you. Good thing I am not a chick or I might be pissed.

No, it has nothing to do with proxy settings, you have to check the "bypass firewall" box.

how about just obeying the rules of the party which actually pays for the pc and the bandwidth. hmm...... responsibility and respect, anyone remember these?

Use your brain just 2min trying to understand why the network admin deny usage of the most unsafe internet tool. Let's talk about education!!!

Yep. Sounds like that your admins know what they are doing. Usually bypassing firewall wont make a difference coz (if the firewall works properly) thats the only place that you will be able to get outside.

Experience tells network admin and firewall protect network against bad guy from the internet and from the intranet. The pratical rule is simple : every intranet user is a local daemon. Indeed that means half the Web is unreachable, mail works nearly fine but can't be got on vacancies, ftp is under control and other protocols don't even exist. Despite no problem. Of course, network is useless. As I need Internet access for my work I have no choice. I must bypass that or find an other job. I suspect I'm not alone in this case. I'm looking where is responsability, respect and education. That's not exactly the words we use to qualify our network administration. With or without three exclamation mark to ensure we are right. He perfectly knows what he is doing but he just forgets some guys need to use the network.