Ethernut,
I'm obviously missing something.....I have been able to do exaclty
what you said with my linksys router....from work....I can open an SSH
session to my linux box using putty and forward port 81.....exactly as
described....in a browser...I can get to my linksys setup
page....however....I can't for the life of me figure out how to make
this work for "regular surfing"........any help is GREATLY
Appreciated.....
Chris
> Guys/Gals install an OPENSSH server on your linux box, open up port 22 on
> your router, download a free SSH client for windows (I'f Micro$oft is what
> you use), I prefer Putty
> http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/x86/putty.exe). SSH into
> your box with port redirection configured over ssh. Using SSH you can
> redirect the traffic from ANY port on your box out ANY port on your linux
> box. For instance you could redirect port 81 on your box at work to port 80
> on your linksys box using your linux box and SSH as a proxy. Once
> connected, ssh has established an encrypted tunnel between you and your
> Linuxbox at home. Open up your browser and type http://locahost:81 at such
> time your web browser will make a request for the default.htm on server port
> 81 which is redirected over your tunnel to port 80 on your linksys router
> and VIOLA! You got your web interface on your Linksys router. When you get
> that technique masterd you can encrypt web sessions over your SSH tunnel and
> out your linksys router from work.. that way you can surf wherever you want
> and all the Administrator can see is encrypted SSH traffic. Don't forget to
> turn on SSH compression to speed things up a little..
> For more detail on how this works go here
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshvnc.html this page is about getting to
> an XVNC session from work using SSH to tunnel the traffic. You'll get the
> idea what I'm talking about once you've read through it a couple of times..
> Linux has many POWERFUL tools, ssh is one of the best!
> Good luck!
> EtherNut
> > I found something interesting that I thought I'd share with you guys/gals.
> > At work, I found that I was needing to get into my home linksys router to
> > change ports from time to time, and since the Linksys only has a web
> > interface, I thought I was SOL.
> > Then, just on a whem, I tried getting to it from Lynx and it actually
> > worked. I can log into my Linksys router, change ports, and do anything
> you
> > can via a standard GUI browser. It's somewhat tedious and not the best
> > looking interface, but it does the job.
> > Just an FYI for those of you who might be telnetting into your Linux box
> and
> > need to change settings on the Linksys router.
> > Later,
> > Sam
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