Since I didn’t want to get charged $27.50 for 100MB of data on ReiverNet at the Oaks Auroa hotel (amazing place), I looked for some ways around the system. Before leaving I read up about ICMPTX( IP over ICMP, e.g. ping packets ) and NSTX(IP over DNS). ICMP didn’t seem to work, but hostnames were resolvable, so I done some more reading on NSTX.
Turns out that some software called iodine has taken over the roll of NSTX. I was able to convince another user to compile iodine for snow leopard because I forgot to install xtools before I left, and followed this tutorial on installing on FreeBSD and this. In no time I had free internet at the cost of their name server. If they charged a decent rate, I wouldn’t have worried.
The tunnel is ok for low bandwidth uses, like HTML, but other content slows the pipe down quickly.