Academic license validation through port forwarding

[Matas Sørensen]

I am trying to validate an academic license from outside my
university's network. However, the university does not allow me to
connect by VPN, but does allow me connections through SSH (and SSH
tunnels). I assume that the reason you suggest validating a license
over VPN is because the VPN will act as default gateway, thereby
redirecting (all) traffic.

My question is the following: Can I validate my license by using a SSH
connection and port forwarding? I tried forwarding port 80, but that
seemed to have no effect. If not, what other ways of validation my
license exists? Bringing the computer to the university is not an
option.

[T.]

If this is on a linux machine, you can use TSOCKS. This works fine. I don't know if there is something similar for Windows.

[Greg Glockner]

You can also bring your computer to your university (or really any university) and install the Gurobi license key file. Once the license is installed, a connection is not required until you need a new Gurobi license key file in 1 year.

[Matas Sørensen]

Can you elaborate on this setup? This is a windows machine, so if you
can just describe the setup in general?

[Matas Sørensen]

Solved! Using Putty to establish a dynamic tunnel to my university,
and then setting up Proxifier to use this dynamic tunnel as proxy.
Works as a charm.

[Wim Vancroonenburg]

Thanks for the tip, works perfectly!