{Disarmed} Re: [Leaplist] {Disarmed} Connecting to router

[Gray Frost]

Thanks,

I see your point.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:18 PM, John Simpson <jms1 at jms1.net> wrote:

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>> How do I configure my home router from somewhere outside on the Internet.
>>
>>
>>>  From my own home network I would just type in 192.168.0.1 at the
>> browser and
>> then get to the admin log in utility screen.  I know what the IP address
>> is
>> to get to my computer from outside shelling in (well I am able to ssh in
>> that is).  I am not sure how to get to the router utility from the
>> outside?
>>
>
> with many routers, you can't.
>
> some routers have an option to enable remote administration, however of
> those which have this option, every one of them turns it off by default.
>
> the reason for this is that allowing remote administration of your router
> is, to put it bluntly, almost always a very bad idea. if you allow remote
> administration of the router, and a "bad guy" knows about a bug in the
> router's web interface (say, a buffer overflow, or a default password) then
> you've just given that "bad guy" full access to any machine on your network.
>
> what i normally do is have a linux machine inside the firewall, with a
> tunnel allowing SSH to come through the firewall to that machine... and then
> i use SSH port forwarding to access anything inside the network, including
> the router itself if need be... as long as you're careful and the changes
> you're making on the router don't end up rebooting the router, it can work-
> i've done it before.
>
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