Hacking through a Network?

I went to Miami University of Ohio, and they had the exact same thing. My solution wasn't exactly specific to Clean Access.

I had a linux server at home. I would set up a ssh tunnel to that home machine. I forget the command, but I believe it's something like :

ssh user@server_address -D 9000

Then you can set up your computer to use the address 127.0.0.1 and port 9000 as a proxy server. From there you can do whatever you want. I used this solution also because they had wireless internet everywhere, but none of it was encrypted. This encrypted all of network traffic (as long as I was careful things were configured to use that proxy).

You can also use an alternate OS, like it was explained below. However, if you don't feel like switching from windows, I believe Cisco Clean Access uses the http headers from your Web Browser to determine your OS.

Hopefully you're using Firefox. Get an extension for Firefox that allows you to modify the headers of your HTTP requests. Modify them to say you're using an alternate OS. It should make Clean Access believe that you are using an alternate OS. I had a Mac, and I didn't even have to download the Clean Access agent to my mac. My PC however, required that. By switching the headers you should be able to fool Clean Access.

Finally, the option I found most convienent for my PC was: 1) Connect my mac by plugging in, 2) Share that connection wirelessly, 3) Connect to that wireless connection with my PC. All the traffic is flowing through the Mac, which doesn't require all of that Clean Access client crap, so my PC could be connected without having to worry about it.

Hope that helps.

Jam it back in, in the dark.