On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:54:25AM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
On 18-Jan-06 Chris Green wrote:
My Zyxel router can limit access to its web configuration menu in various ways, i.e. it can be:-
From LAN only, from WAN only or from anywhere From any IP address or from a single specified IP addressThe trouble is that I'd like to be able to configure it when I'm at home, that means "from LAN only, any IP address" *and* from work which means "from WAN only, specified IP address".
The options are exclusive so I can't have both together. Can anyone suggest a way I can either:-
Make my home machine's browser look like it's connecting from an outside IP address?or:- Make it look like a connection from work is coming from within my home LAN?
I suspect the second possibility above is more likely to be possible, though I don't quite see how at the moment.
The router is a Zyxel 2602HW by the way.
Can you not, say from home, telnet/ssh to your work machine and once logged in to that run a configuration session from the work machine but under the remote control of the home machine?
Yes, but remember this is a web configurator so one needs to run a browser to do it. I have got things set up from home to work and vice versa so I can run X programs remotely but Firefox is unusably slow across an ADSL connection. I can't use a text mode browser because the Zyxel web configuration doesn't work with them (I've tried both lynx and links).
Or does the router inhibit net traffic while it's being configured?
Or is the work machine switched off when you're at home?
Neither of the above is the case.