[Nottingham] Re: Social / website / Wireless Router - questions, any recommendations?

[Martin]

David Aldred wrote:
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> Using DHCP, the addresses allocated to machines vary.  The router doesn't seem 
> to pick up any hostname when allocating a DHCP lease - is there any way of 
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Look at the instructions? Alocate according to MAC?

> Secondly, is it possible to ssh in from a machine outside the local network to 
> one inside it?
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Yes. This is called 'port forwarding' or 'redirection' (RDR).

For this to work, you must set the modem-router to forward whatever port 
to whatever LAN IP address. You might need to have fixed IPs after all. 
(Its what I did for my servers, with DHCP over a restricted range for 
the rest.)

Or, you could do something clever with a DMZ.

Good luck,
Martin

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