Remote Telnet access to a Gateway 1

[audiopimp]

Hi, hope I got the right forum here.
Here's my situation and setup.

Cable (WAN)
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Linksys Router (using DHCP)
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36 port Switch
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Windows 2000 Server Winxp stations Quintum Gateways

Now because the router is using DHCP and is acting as a NAT how would someone log in to a node (Quintum Gateways) on our network via telnet.
The device we are trying to log in to is a Quintum gateway with a static IP.
What IP from the remote location will we have to connect to? The IP from our ISP? How does that work? There are 4 gateways we will have to do this to. All can be assighned a different static IP (192.168.1.XX) but isnt that locally?What is needed? If you have links to this please postem as well

Thanks your opinions are greatly appreciated!

 

[smah]

Telnet uses port 23. In the router forwarding page, you would forward port 23 to the internal ip address of your gateway. You would telnet to your WAN IP (given by your ISP) the router will forward this to the gateway. You are going to have slight problem, because this router can only forward this port to 1 ip address.

If you want to use this setup to administer all 4 gateways, here's what you'll have to do: Whoever is admisitering these gateways from outside your network will need to know all 4 internal ip addresses (192.168.1.xxx) for the gateways. He will also need the administrator password to the router (don't use the default). Remote administration of the router needs to be enabled. Setup the router to forward port 23 to one of the gateways. Telnet & do whatever you need to do. End the telnet session. Open a web browser to

http://yourwanip:8080

and change the the telnet forwarding to point to the next gateway. Telnet again. And repeat two more times.

There are other possible solutions to your problem, but this will work with what you've got.

 

[audiopimp]

hey man great! that was the answer I was looking for!!

Star for you

 

[smah]

Your welcome. Just make sure you use a good password for the router administration - do not use the default 'admin'. When you enable remote administration, anyone that can guess your password can change the router settings.

 

[audiopimp]

yes thanks, much appreciated