On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:02 +0800, Martin Acupanda wrote: > Any one who was able to access there home computers from work via dsl? > How did you do it?
one way would be to set up an openvpn server (or any VPN, really, openvpn is very easy to setup though) at work and have your home computer connect to that as an openvpn client. that way, you've now got a tunnel at work that goes straight down to your home computer. another way is to use dynamic dns. I use dyndns.org. Then, at your DSL connection, if you've got a router, do some port forwarding (probably of the ssh port) from the router to the PC. if your PC faces the internet directly, open the ssh port to the world. the router i've got (thanks jijo) has built-in dyndns support. So I don't even need to setup the dyndns updater on my internal PCs. Just turn on the router. one other trick would be to combine the two above. for instance, for something else (i have multiple work computers at multiple sites), the "work" computer I needed to access was behind NAT. there's no way to get to it from outside. so i can't have my home computer connect to it. on the other hand, i'm normally not at that 'work' site. i need *it* to connect to my home PC so that i can go down that pipe to it. so i set it up as an openvpn client that connects to my dyndns hostname. Then I set up port forwarding at my home router so that openvpn UDP packets get forwarded to the correct host inside my home network. That way, i can connect to that 'work' PC even though both it and my 'home' computer are behind NAT gateways. tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
