[IWE] UPDATE

[Andrew Grygus]

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:21:05 -0600, Jay Burns IV wrote:

First you need to go into the D-Link and find out from "status" what 
its IP address is on the WAN. That may change if the connection is 
interrupted for some time so if the connection stops working later 
check it again. To get in, use your Web browser and go to the 
gateway address (http://192.168.0.1).  D-Link login name and 
passward are proably admin/[none] or admin/admin.

Next turn off DHCP. Most home routers can't handle both port 
forwarding and DHCP at the same time, and you'll really want a 
static IP on your inside machine anyway.

Give your computer a static IP. I usually use one outside the DHCP 
range just in case DHCP gets turned on again later. Your DHCP 
range is 100 on up, probably to 150. Lets say you set your PC to 
192.168.0.44.

Next, knowing the port you need to forward (see BP posts), set it to 
forward both type of traffic for that port to 192.168.0.44. I don't 
remember the exact D-Link menus but they'll have it there somewhere.

Now, when you set up the SSH connection from work you tell it 
to connect to the WAN IP address reported by your router, not the 
192.168.0.44 address which is not routable on the Internet. When 
the router gets a request to the forwarded port it will pass that request 
through to the computer at address 192.168.0.44.  Only the WAN 
address of the router is visible from the Internet.

>The cable modem is a Motorola Surfboard, in the 5000 series.   So it is 
>not a router per se (at least, it doesn't appear to be).  The router is 
>directly wired to the Surfboard; it is a D-Link DI-624 wireless router., 
>It does present a private LAN on the back side; it is set up to be a 
>DHCP server, and gives my computer an IP address of 168.192.0./x/, where 
>x is generally 100 or 101. Its DHCP server address is 168.192.0.1.  That 
>address is also set up as my default gateway.
>
>When you say "program a port forward to your computer's IP and address 
>the router's WAN address from the outside", exactly what do you mean?
m educable, though, so any ideas on how to do that?  The