Re: Connecting remotely to my home computer
On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 07:09:35PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> 1. My IP address is assigned to the DSL bridge and my firewall/router box
> (and other machines on my home LAN) NAT out. Basically, my router box uses
> ipmasq to allow my other machines out, then the DSL bridge NATs my router
> box out onto the internet.
Does the DSL Modem or your firewall get assigned the external IP?
> 2. Given the NAT situation, how do gain access to my router box (or any
> other specific machine) behind the NAT?
Depends on which one of the above two get the external IP.
> 3. How do I keep my DHCP IP (my ISP does not offer static IP for
> residential customers) fairly constant, over say a period of a day or two?
> Do I need to setup a cron job to send traiffic out (like a ping) every few
> minutes to keep the connection active? If so, how do I setup a cron job
> (I've never actually had to do that before)?
Not really necessary provided your firewall gets the external IP your
looking for. If it does, you can use a dynamic dns updater like
ddclient, ez-ipupdate, or ipcheck to update your IP with an external DNS
server.
> 4. How insecure is it really to enable X forwarding over SSH? I have
> heard that it is not advisable becuase of security, but how bad is it?
AFAIK, as secure as your SSH tunnel. It tends to be slow, forwarding
VNC over an SSH tunnel is normally faster.
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Jamin W. Collins
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