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![]() Is anyone using this router with a fixed IP address & can succesfully ping it from a remote machine ? Mine doesnt seem to respond to remote pings & I'm wondering if I have it configured correctly. Is there an option for enabling/disabling its ability to respond to pings ? Thanks |
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![]() Is anyone using this router with a fixed IP address & can succesfully ping it from a remote machine ? Mine doesnt seem to respond to remote pings & I'm wondering if I have it configured correctly. Is there an option for enabling/disabling its ability to respond to pings ? I`m not on a fixed IP address, but I use a dynamic address to connect to VNC etc remotely with an AR41. I think they`re normally designed so that they will only listen to traffic they were expecting, so if you had an application that sent a request for information, it would allow the "returning" data in. Likewise, if you had a port forwarded and a corresponding server on your machine, you will get through. All other "noise" is dropped and ignored. You may be able to forward a port to allow the ping to respond, but i`m not sure which one. This would tell every hacker and his dog your system existed. -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() On 6 Dec 2003 20:37, "Chalkie" wrote: Mine doesnt seem to respond to remote pings & I'm wondering if I have it configured correctly. If you've changed anything, it is showing pings now, as well as 10% packet loss (hope you weren't in the middle of some game!) |
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![]() My ultimate aim is to enable remote management of the router so I've set up what I think are the appropriate entries in the configuration & enabled remote HTTP & Telnet management & when I found that I couldnt log in from a remote pc I tried to ping the router. It didnt respond to that, hence my original post. "Colin Wilson" wrote in message t... Is anyone using this router with a fixed IP address & can succesfully ping it from a remote machine ? Mine doesnt seem to respond to remote pings & I'm wondering if I have it configured correctly. Is there an option for enabling/disabling its ability to respond to pings ? I`m not on a fixed IP address, but I use a dynamic address to connect to VNC etc remotely with an AR41. I think they`re normally designed so that they will only listen to traffic they were expecting, so if you had an application that sent a request for information, it would allow the "returning" data in. Likewise, if you had a port forwarded and a corresponding server on your machine, you will get through. All other "noise" is dropped and ignored. You may be able to forward a port to allow the ping to respond, but i`m not sure which one. This would tell every hacker and his dog your system existed. -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() Peter, I'm not posting from a pc behind the offending router. "Peter Morgan - 0870 432 9631" wrote in message .net... On 6 Dec 2003 20:37, "Chalkie" wrote: Mine doesnt seem to respond to remote pings & I'm wondering if I have it configured correctly. If you've changed anything, it is showing pings now, as well as 10% packet loss (hope you weren't in the middle of some game!) |
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![]() My ultimate aim is to enable remote management of the router so I've set up what I think are the appropriate entries in the configuration & enabled remote HTTP & Telnet management & when I found that I couldnt log in from a remote pc I tried to ping the router. It didnt respond to that, hence my original post. I would be wary about allowing remote access to router settings - how often would you need to change them ? If you only need to do this occasionally, would you be better getting someone to run a VNC server within the network you want to alter, so you can make the changes then close the VNC server down yourself ? -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() Colin, Thanks for the advice but I'm setting up the router for a game-playing friend who is not very technically minded. I want to do it this way so that I can set up port-forwarding etc without having to trek to his house to do it. "Colin Wilson" wrote in message t... My ultimate aim is to enable remote management of the router so I've set up what I think are the appropriate entries in the configuration & enabled remote HTTP & Telnet management & when I found that I couldnt log in from a remote pc I tried to ping the router. It didnt respond to that, hence my original post. I would be wary about allowing remote access to router settings - how often would you need to change them ? If you only need to do this occasionally, would you be better getting someone to run a VNC server within the network you want to alter, so you can make the changes then close the VNC server down yourself ? -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() Thanks for the advice but I'm setting up the router for a game-playing friend who is not very technically minded. I want to do it this way so that I can set up port-forwarding etc without having to trek to his house to do it. Great, so at least you`ll know someone will be in to run VNC... i`d definitely go that route to be honest, and then you can admin the router "locally" from his machine without leaving your house :-) -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() Colin, Thanks, I'll give your suggestion a try but Im still puzzled by the fact that there is an option to manage the router via the internet and yet we have to use a convoluted way of achieving the same result "Colin Wilson" wrote in message t... Thanks for the advice but I'm setting up the router for a game-playing friend who is not very technically minded. I want to do it this way so that I can set up port-forwarding etc without having to trek to his house to do it. Great, so at least you`ll know someone will be in to run VNC... i`d definitely go that route to be honest, and then you can admin the router "locally" from his machine without leaving your house :-) -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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![]() On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:13:27 -0000, "Chalkie" wrote: Thanks, I'll give your suggestion a try but Im still puzzled by the fact that there is an option to manage the router via the internet and yet we have to use a convoluted way of achieving the same result You don't, but it is a lot safer (the PC running VNC can have a software firewall restricting which remote IP(s) are allowed to access it, so it can limit the chance of hackers using VNC, and then from the PC, making a connection to the router is safe. The router might not restrict the IP address for internet connections (I know some do, but not all) so it leaves the router as a target, especially of you don't change from the default port (80) for control over the router... give someone a way in and they'll perhaps have tools to mount a sledgehammer attack to break in... OK, they might find out little, but it could be annoying to find PCs on the LAN locked out of internet access (something I think this router can do). Peter M. |
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