[Techtalk] Setting up an ADSL router for remote access
David Sumbler
david at aeolia.co.uk
Tue Dec 29 16:46:04 UTC 2015
Thanks for that suggestion, which hadn't occurred to me.
David
On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 12:54 -0500, Michael Carson wrote:
> That seems likely to work. Personally, if also set up an outgoing ssh
> tunnel to an asset of yours, in case it doesn't or it gets reset.
>
> C.
>
> On Dec 28, 2015 12:27, "David Sumbler" <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
> I have an elderly (i.e. even more elderly that me) friend who
> lives a
> long way off; we keep in touch mostly by using Pidgin for IM.
> For many
> years I have managed to keep her computer more or less
> functional,
> mainly by my logging in remotely.
>
> Very often the sort of things I need to sort out are merely
> uncollapsing
> folders in Evolution when she finds she can't see her emails.
> She
> sometimes accidentally changes things like this because her
> eyesight is
> not very good; she has also been diagnosed with Alzheimers,
> and although
> that is at a fairly early stage she is easily confused if I
> try to
> explain how to correct things.
>
> Some months ago she had to get a new router. She was supplied
> with a
> new one by her ISP (BT). Unfortunately this means that I can
> no longer
> log in to her computer because the router has not been set up
> to permit
> that.
>
> She is now having computer problems which need to be sorted
> out. They
> sound like simple things such as the collapsed folders I
> mentioned, and
> also she clearly has not applied any software updates for many
> months:
> she has probably forgotten how to. So we have decided that
> she will
> send her computer to me to fix, which will probably only take
> a matter
> of minutes.
>
> It occurred to me that if she were to send her router as well
> I ought to
> be able to set that up so that when she reconnects everything
> I can then
> get an SSH connection to her computer. When her router is
> here with me
> I doubt that I shall be able to get an internet connection
> with it: it
> is set up with her account details and BT is quite likely to
> refuse a
> connection because it is not coming through a BT phone line.
> But so far
> as I can see I don't need an internet connection: I just need
> to be able
> to log into the router from her (or my) computer and set it up
> to allow
> incoming connections from me to be routed to her computer.
>
> Can anyone see a problem with this? Is there anything I have
> overlooked
> which might prevent me from setting up the router the way we
> need
> without having an active internet connection?
>
> David
>
>
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