On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 11:05:55AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
The *real* aim is to allow me to get at my router configuration from here in Wales so I can change it to allow direct ssh access from this IP address. The router's web configuration uses so much bad/arcane javascript that you can't access it using lynx/links/w3m and the telnet access to its configuration is far too difficult to attempt to use remotely, the chances of screwing it up so that access is completely denied are very high.
... a bit of lateral thinking (along with the ideas from here) has got me to a solution. Although ssh access to the router's firewall configuration is too arcane for safe use I *was* able to enable direct external https access to the router using the ssh interface and can now access it directly using firefox from here. I'll probably disable remote configuration access again now I have done what I want, it's easy enough to turn on and off as needed.