The first time you deploy an AI agent inside a corporate network and it just... sits there. No connection refused, no timeout logged — just silence. The agent can't reach its peers, can't pull tools from the store, can't phone home. You've hit the corporate firewall problem.
It's not a code bug. It's a network architecture mismatch. Your agent assumes a flat internet. The corporation assumes nothing leaves without explicit permission. Here is how to debug this, step by step, without asking IT for firewall rule changes.
Why corporate networks break agents
Enterprise networks sit behind NAT and enforce egress filtering. Outbound traffic goes through:
A NAT gateway (often carrier-grade or corporate proxy)
