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I was debugging my UDP server and client for 3 hours until I realized our school network has a firewall which blocks my connections.

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    And for good reasons. You could ask IT though for an exception though.
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    @nbamaral it wasn't even an out going connection it's all local
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    Well that's less reasonable, but it does stop local peer-to-peer (even old Skype used to try that) and spurious netbios name resolution
    Can you connect your own dumb switch? Un unmanaged model, between you and the lan :)
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    Chinese proverb: "When the light does not work, check the plug"
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    @mk3d that's a pretty recent proverb.
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    @nbamaral yea my teacher allowed me to connect some pcs with a switch and finally it all worked great.
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