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You're sitting in an airport or in a cafe, and people want your money for Internet access. They do allow ICMP traffic, though (i.e., you can ping machines on the Internet). Enters ICMPTX. (If you can't use ping, but you can issue name queries, use NSTX: IP-over-DNS.) There are several resources online to point you in the right direction, most notably Case of a wireless hack by Siim Põder. There is a similar, thoroughly undocument program called itun, a simple icmp tunnel that claims to do the same thing. Also, check out PingTunnel which is not IP-over-ICMP, but rather TCP-over-ICMP and, therefore, less useful.

Once you've followed these instructions, you basically have a remote proxy, providing you with access to the Internet. Communication between you and the remote proxy is over ICMP.

You're sitting in an airport or in a cafe, and people want your money for Internet access. They do allow DNS traffic, though.

If the ISP allows DNS traffic to any DNS server (and not just their own), you might consider running OpenVPN on UDP port 53 (thanks to Norman Rasmussen for this suggestion). If they don't, however, NSTX comes to the rescue. NSTX is a hack to tunnel IP traffic over DNS.