--- Saswata Banerjee & Associates scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Hi Abhisekh, I saw this thread very late, but still my inputs may be of help. We have a similar requirement at one of my client's office where the remote office wants the ability to access local server in the Mumbai office to take some files in an emergency after close of office hours.
What we have done is as below. MTNL Triband does not provide a static ip, but a public ip is given each time you connect. We have used dynedns to link the dynamic ip provided by MTNL to a static ip which dyndns has given. Each time the computer connects, it updates the records on dyndns so that the remote office can connect through that url. I think there is a cron job that automatically communicates the updates to the dyndns ip address whenever the sytem connects to mtnl. (I will need to check how that happens, I didnt bother about it earlier).
That may be the easiest way out of the trouble for you. We checked it out and it works without problem.
The set up was done for me by Rajeev R K, who is also on ILUG and you can ask him if you get stuck.
Regards Saswata
Hi Saswata, I can get into the routers (netgear as well as mtnl) if I turn remote management on and use the Dynamic IP provided by them. So upto this point is not a problem.
It is only when I am trying to ssh into a box here from a remote server (ssh on dynamic IP from local machine does work. i dont know if that is strange or not) that it does not get in.
So if the netgear port forwarding was not working properly, it would not have allowed my requests from local machine to dynamic IP;which gets routed to a particular box; correct?
Ofcourse i have not tried Remote management remotely (or from a dialup seperated from the network). So the fact that i can get remote management for router working may be a red herring.
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