[wellylug] Remote login

[Simon Antliff]

On 4/25/05, Rob Giltrap <rob at kiwihq.com> wrote:
> Thanks all for the help. It now all works wonderfully.

I have the DSE XH1169 router, and use ssh to login remotely. You need
to set port 22 TCP on  the virtual server page for default ssh. I came
in late, so you already know this. However, you might want to think
about changing your sshd to listen on a different port, say 14342, and
connect to it using 'ssh -p 14342 user at host'. You can set up
~/.ssh/config so that you dont need to remember that port each time:

Host foo
       Port 14342
       User bar

then use 'ssh foo'.


Getting back to the router, also make sure you set the 'HTTP server
access' setting in 'Miscellaneous Configuration' to Restricted
(preferrably LAN only). Its set to All by default.

Unfortunately if someone nmaps your IP, you wont be able to stop your
router from replying on the open ports. It will also reply on some
truly odd ports, such as 1720. Not sure why, or if I can stop it.

Out of curiosity, what do you use to connect to the router to change
settings? A web browser?