My work wants me to set up remote administration to the office, but
there are a couple cha;lenges and I am hoping you cguys can help.
My former boss was doing this before & I know I can write rules based on
my IP address and such, but to complicate things, there is an appliance
that provides failover for our WAN connections. My boss confirmed that
once that was installed, he was not able to remote in anymore.
These are the questions/challenges I see myself facing and any input
would be welcome:
1) Being on SHaw I have a dynamic IP and as such I may lose remote
capability if my IP changes. WOuld I be able use one of those free DNS
services and then reference that name in the IPTables rules to provide
connectivity based on that name? IIRC, there are programs available for
these services, that will run in the background and will keep the IP
address of your router (in my case a D-Link DI-604) updated with the DNS
service.
2) WOuld the IPTables rules work with a domain name? Example:
computer.dnsservice.com (which has a public IP of 1.2.3.4)
3) What would need to be done with the appliance to ensure that I could
connect through it? WOuld I need to establish a VPN tunnel or would I
need to do something with port forwarding?
4) If I change any IPTables rules, would I need to reboot the firewall?
Restart the service?
5) ANything else anyone can think of?
Would like to get this resolved ASAP so if anyone can come up with any
ideas?
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