Re: Connecting to a Linksys router through a unix terminal

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 04/17/04

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    Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:58:12 -0700

    On Fri, Apr 16, 2004, Lord Krugster wrote:
    >So here's the situation...I have a Linsksys router controlling a
    >network at my house, 150 miles away from where I am. Before I left, I
    >was smart enough to forward port 22 to a computer on the network, so
    >that I could ssh and scp in to the network and such. However, I
    >wanted to use a different port and, like it should, the router blocks
    >it. Is there any unix tool that I can use to connect to the router.
    >Like I said, I can get to it from the inside, but I can't ssh to it's
    >ip address, nor telnet nor ftp. I figure if I can get in somehow, I
    >can configure it to add another port so that I can share the desktop
    >(which is what I'm trying to do, but can't because all ports are
    >blocked, and it can't share 22 because of ssh.) Any help here? My
    >only way of getting to the router has been through http, using a web
    >browser, and I simply don't have that luxury now. Thanks.

    The LinkSys routers and VPN boxes normally are configured only via http,
    and don't allow external connections by default. You can enable external
    http connections to port 8080 (or perhaps port 8000) from the advanced
    configuration menu.

    If you can ssh into an internal machine with X forwarding turned on either
    in your external ssh_config file or with the ``-X'' option to the ssh
    command, then you may be able to configure it with a browser from the
    inside. I do this fairly frequently running Mozilla on a Linux box inside
    LinkSys BEFVP41 VPN boxes. It's dicey sometimes since the LinkSys is
    pretty Internet Exploder specific, and sometimes the form buttons don't do
    what one would expect.

    Bill 

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