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Anonymous   01-25-2005 at 06:05:28 AM

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I have a LAN whereby all the machines on the network are given generic
192.168.1.X addresses. How would one remotely access a machine on the LAN,
if I know the WAN address of my router?

Assuming my router has a WAN Y.Y.Y.Y and a machine connected to the home LAN
has an address 192.168.1.X - I can ping my router by typing:

ping Y.Y.Y.Y

How would I ping the 192.168.1.X machine?

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Jonathan   02-02-2005 at 04:41:19 AM
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Kwaj wrote:
> I have a LAN whereby all the machines on the network are given generic
> 192.168.1.X addresses. How would one remotely access a machine on the LAN,
> if I know the WAN address of my router?
>

You can't. Well, you could, but you'd wouldn't have a LAN, and you'd
have literally the mother of all security problems.

The point of a LAN is that you cannot see it from outside (the public,
or wide area network). That's what "local" means in this context.

There are ways of doing what you want without having all your machines
turned into spam-sending zombies, but that involves fiddling with
firewalls or setting up VPNs.

Is that any help?

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Anonymous   03-10-2005 at 11:08:14 PM
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Program a port on your router to forward to that machine.

Thats' what you do with remote digital video monitoring, or something like
PC anywhere.

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> I have a LAN whereby all the machines on the network are given generic
> 192.168.1.X addresses. How would one remotely access a machine on the LAN,
> if I know the WAN address of my router?
>
> Assuming my router has a WAN Y.Y.Y.Y and a machine connected to the home
LAN
> has an address 192.168.1.X - I can ping my router by typing:
>
> ping Y.Y.Y.Y
>
> How would I ping the 192.168.1.X machine?
>
>

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