Hi,

Thanks for replying back. You are suggesting to create a new firewall which will be used against such miscreants. But, already the users have one institute proxy account and setting up another one for local use would be too tedious and not approved by the professors and students alike. And I would not like the honest and sincere users any troubles by adding one more proxy account.

I don't manage the institute proxy servers and usually the modus operandi is such that all the users in the institute are given one proxy account and there are no departmental or server specific proxies. So anyways, the request there would also not be favoured.

I thought about installing the proxy, but after taking the feedback from students, obviated the idea. So the only thing that I could get to know was to do with packet sniffing and catching the wrong-doers. Do you have any info on this?

Moreover, about the site banning. The institute regularly does that on its own too and I dont know how these people are accessing those sites. I think that they are bypassing the proxy too and also using anonymous sites though they too have been banned by the institute. I have no idea right now how they are managing this. So that is why the only resort is to catch the packets and from there see how, where and what are they accessing.


thanks.

Bluzky.