[ale] Was Re: DSL static IP; now Linksys WiFi/Routers

[Jeff Hubbs]

This reminds me.  I have a LinkSys WRT54G WAP/Router that I haven't even 
really used yet.  It's a v5.0, which apparently is a bad version to have 
if you want to use third-party firmware; I've seen at least one path 
forward for third-party firmware for the v5.0 but the installation seems 
very hairy, the software seems arcane enough that ongoing development 
and bugfixes don't seem likely, and a good many installation failure 
modes seem to result in a "bricked" router.

That being said, how bad off would I be in using the WRT54G as-is as my 
Comcast cable Internet firewall and WAP?  I'm leery of home WAPs in 
general and I may even leave it disabled most of the time, but how 
unsafe is it for a cable Internet firewall?

- Jeff

James Taylor wrote:
> Most of the DSL routers I've seen have a port forwarding feature.  You can redirect incoming connections to different addresses depending on which port you connect to the public static address on.  You should be able to define some ports to forward to your inside hosts.
> -jt
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>>>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2007 at  2:51 PM, in message
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> <200707041451.20000.paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright
> <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote: 
>   
>> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 02:10:21 pm John Mills wrote:
>>     
>>> OpenSSH on the remote linux (puTTY on remote Windows); openSSH/sshd on the
>>> home system. Open the incoming ssh port on the home system's firewall, and
>>> forward that port through your LAN router (if any) to the home system.
>>>       
>> I've used winscp & putty from my laptop to my desktop within my own home 
>> network. The next part is what I'm not familiar with.. SO, my home network 
>> is 
>> 192.168.10.X and bellsouth gave me a static IP of... I forget the IP, just 
>> call it xxx.yyy.zzz.10 . My DSL modem attachs to my netgear router, which is 
>>
>> 192.168.10.1 .  I am using firestarter on opensuse, but I don't see a 
>> firestarter process running. So how do I get from the outside world, to my 
>> desktop machine on the 192.168.10 network from my static IP of 
>> xxx.yyy.zzz.10 ?
>>
>>     
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