[lug] Cisco 675 router

[Alan Robertson]

PC Drew wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Andrew Reberry wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any idea how to bypass the cisco router?  I can log in to the router when I know the IP address.  However, I cant figure out how to get from the router to my system at all.   The router is connected directly to a network card attached t
> o the SuSE machine.  I have read the whole manual covering the Cisco 675, but it didn't give me any hints on how I would bypass the system.  USWest is not helpful here and has no idea how I would go about getting this done.
> >
> > The network card I'm using gets an ip address using DHCP.  This address is set by the cisco router I believe, and not USWest.  So to get to my machine, in theory, I would have to telnet into the router, and then telnet into the machine.  However, telnet
> ing from the router does not seem possible.
> 
> As the last response said, you need to setup a NAT entry to go from the outside in.  This'll allow something like "all port 80 traffic goes to 10.0.0.2".
> 
> >
> > Problem 2:
> >
> > When away from home I will not know what the dynamic IP address is.  Could I write a program that would send me an email every day telling me what static IP address my computer currently has.  Or have this program post the IP address to another server w
> hich is connected to the Internet?  Say to my homepage or something else?  If this is a viable solution, what sort of program would I want to write?  A shell script?  C++ program?

There is also a service where you can dynamically update your IP address
in a DNS server, and they'll make it available to everyone in the usual
(DNS) way.

I don't recall what the name of the service is, though...


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr at suse.com