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Posted by Vanguard on June 23, 2005, 10:01 pm
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>> Yep. Depends on your router which you never specified. Some routers
>> have remote logon. After all, they are simply running a web server
>> for
>> you to get at its admin pages. You will need to see if your router
>> supports remote logon, enable it, and be damn sure to use a strong
>> username and a strong password to prevent cracking.
>
> Most routers only offer that kind of access on the LAN interface.
> However, if you're running a proxy server on your machine and make
> that
> accessible from the Internet, somebody could access the router through
> the proxy...
ALL access to routers through their web server is "remote access". That
is, you are not actually logging onto the router's own host (i.e., the
router device) because it doesn't provide an operating system (some
router appliances do but not the NAT routers assumed here). Instead you
are using some other host in your intranetwork to manage that router's
setup so all access to the router is remote. All you need for remote
access by any intranetwork (LAN-side) host are the login credentials.
The Remote Administration in the router is to provide WAN-side access
so, for example, you could manage your home router from work. My D-Link
DI-604 and Linksys BEFSR41 have that and they're considered low-end
entry model NAT routers.
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