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.
They don’t need to see the traffic inside the VPN. They only need to see that there’s a VPN at all.
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.
Yeah, torrents without a VPN will be detected. Torrents inside a VPN won’t be detected, but the VPN itself will.
What if VPN traffic is on a non-standard port?
It’s still VPN traffic and will be detected as such.
Not really, if it’s on TCP 443 it will look no different than a typical HTTPS traffic.