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1. omni

   Is there any way at all for me to access my router from an external network? The story: DHCP gave my system in the Netherlands another port and therefore screwed up port forwarding, so I can't access my PC anymore behind the router from this completely unrelated network in Germany. So I need to either access the router, or the PC directly, "bypassing" the router. I know the external IP of the network and I know the most likely internal IP of the system I want to access through SSH. Does anypony have a clue what I can do?

   about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
   1. omni

      @omni It gave my system another internal IP, not port, sorry...

      about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
      1. derpyshy

         @omni http://www.connectify.me/

         about a year ago from web
   2. derpyshy

      @omni Something like Connectify, maybe?

      about a year ago from web
      1. omni

         @derpyshy Thanks for the help, but a Wi-Fi ad-hoc network isn't strong enough to connect to from roughly 100 kilometres away from it. Besides that, I have no access to my system now (only a dad there who can't do tasks like port forwarding)

         about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
         1. derpyshy

            @omni Can't you help him with it? :3

            about a year ago from web
            1. twitch

               @derpyshy Ewww... must be a thick fog like smell...

               about a year ago from web
            2. omni

               @derpyshy I'm not sure if I can even get him to turn my PC off correctly. I mean, logging in and typing "sudo poweroff" isn't that hard, but computers aren't his thing

               about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
               1. derpyshy

                  @omni :/ Then I'm out of ideas :\

                  about a year ago from web
   3. bitshift

      @omni Some routers support web-facing administrative access, but you'd need to enable it from within the network first, so you're out of luck right now. That and doing so is a _horrible_ idea from a security point of view, since anyone on the internet can then access your router's control panel; meaning that if you did do so, you'd better have an _extremely_ strong password on it, and probably more safety measures too.

      about a year ago from web
      1. omni

         @bitshift So, long story short: I'm screwed, should sob quietly in a corner and disable DHCP on my system as soon as I get home again?

         about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
         1. bitshift

            @omni As long as you don't actually need DHCP for anything, pretty much, yeah. :(

            about a year ago from web
            1. omni

               @bitshift Is there any reason I may need DHCP? I haven't figured one other reason than ease-of-setup yet.

               about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
               1. bitshift

                  @omni That's pretty much it. If you're not adding new devices regularly (and all your devices support being manually assigned IPs; I'm aware of very few devices that don't, so that's probably no bother), then there's no real advantage to it beyond the convenience. And since that same property that usually makes it convenient is the exact one that's shot you in the foot here, I would say it's of dubious value anyway.

                  about a year ago from web
                  1. omni

                     @bitshift Then I'll be disabling it for my system, at least. Thanks for the info

                     about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
   4. techdisk

      @omni Do you have any direct access to this other pc at this time? like, to install or change programs? if so, you should set up a VPN.

      about a year ago from web
      1. omni

         @techdisk42 I don't, and I don't really know how a VPN works, but I'll be looking into that for later

         about a year ago from MuSTArDroid
         1. techdisk

            @omni Well, i did just figure out how to VPN on my laptop. If your using Windows 7, http://louisgale.blogspot.ca/2010/02/setting-up-windows-7-vpn-server.html Should help.

            about a year ago from web
            1. omni

               @techdisk42 Being honest, I'm wondering what the difference is between this and the SSH server I'm running on my Linux system. It also seems to require proper port forwarding so it doesn't look like it would solve my issue. I guess I just need to get my system to use a static internal address, instead of DHCP. Still, thanks for the help!

               about a year ago from MuSTArDroid