Article:		Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet
Subject:		routers? How to access?
Date:		2004-03-29 07:59:49
From:		kms007
Response to: routers? How to access?
Thanks, bjepson - I have a LinkSys Cable/DSL router (BEFSR41) -- I've gone through the manual, but it is a bit confusing to me. Here's what I know: My cable modem provides a DHCP address to me. Looking at the web based router management utility, I can see that I have both a WAN and a LAN address. Will the WAN address work? The utility also mentions something called Remote Management -- currently it's disabled. Should I enable it? Sorry for my lack of knowledge on the subject, and thanks for your help!

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• routers? How to access?
  2004-03-29 08:02:38  Brian Jepson | [View]
  
  
  Google found this for me:
  
  How to set up Port Forwarding with a BEFSR41
• routers? How to access?
  2004-03-29 08:22:26  kms007 [View]
  
  
  Many Thanks! :)
  
  I've made the appropriate config settings as per the document (and I also have a static IP assigned behind my router now, thanks to another Linksys knowledgebase article I found.) Hopefully it will all work once I test it out from work. :)
  Are there any specific port(s) for using applications like Remote Desktop or Timbuktu?
  
  
• routers? How to access?
  2004-03-29 09:17:12  Brian Jepson | [View]
  
  
  Glad it worked! I don't know the ports that Remote Desktop and Timbuktu use, you'll have to Google for them.
• routers? How to access?
  2004-03-30 04:36:57  kms007 [View]
  
  
  Yay! I was finally able to ssh into my machine from work. I found a useful website called no-ip.com that assigns a pseudo name that's easy to remember instead of having to remember the WAN IP address if your cable modem/DSL switches it every few days.