configuring router remotely

equivariant

I'm at work at the moment, but I would like to reconfigure the router on my home network.

I can ssh to my home linux box. Is it possible to then configure the router from command line. For example I would like to open some ports on the router. If I was sitting at my computer at home, I could do this using the web interface of the router (its a standard eircom netopia router), but I can't use that interface (directly at least) from outside my home network. I presume that there is some way that I can do this from the command line of my home linux server?

niallb

OSI wrote: »

Then browse to the address of the router as you would at home.

Mine for example is https://192.168.0.1/

This is an excellent way to access remote networks for web access - very simple, encrypted, and can be run with compression too if needed.

One thing to bear in mind is that you'll have issues if your local network is also 192.168.0.x

If you're going to use this access method a lot, it's worth changing your home network to a different number, such as 192.168.124.x so that you won't collide with the remote network's addressing scheme.

t1mm

Those routers support telnet also if I remember correctly.

PrzemoF

t1mm wrote: »

Those routers support telnet also if I remember correctly.

telnet sends passwords in open text

OP, I'm using dd-wrt [1] and there is an option to enable web interface from internet using https on a selected port. Might be good for you if you have a compatible router.


[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

t1mm

telnet sends passwords in open text

SSH to his machine, telnet to router from there. Password only sent over LAN.

equivariant

PrzemoF wrote: »

telnet sends passwords in open text

OP, I'm using dd-wrt [1] and there is an option to enable web interface from internet using https on a selected port. Might be good for you if you have a compatible router.


[1] http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

Yes I can do this with my router. However, my question was how to do it at that particular moment, when I was at work and want to access the router but i had not configured the router for remote web access. The ssh tunnelling solution was the ideal solution, I think. Thanks for the tip anyway.

I am a bit wary of leaving the router interface facing the internet in the manner that you suggest - maybe I am paranoid but is that not a security risk?

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SSH to your network.
Use Lynx to browse to your routers webpage, from the shell!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

niallb

OSI wrote: »

I've found a lot of router config pages don't play well with Lynx.

Unfortunately true.
elinks can work a little better - at least if you're familiar with how the config is laid out, but it falls over badly if the router is set up to use SSL.

PrzemoF

what about links? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29