Topic: Remote user support

[Sasha]

Has anyone tried installing a second modem for PPP dial-in to an e-smith 4 server ?
What config is required to do this?

With IP masquerading, would it be possible to take control of Windoze clients on the
inside of the network, that are running a remote control app such as Win-VNC?
The PC is waiting on an 192.168.1.x address, whilst the ISP assigned address to the PPP link is in the 196.x.x.x range. Does the e-smith server translate these incoming requests backwards ?

[Charlie Brady]

Sasha wrote:

> Has anyone tried installing a second modem for PPP dial-in to
> an e-smith 4 server ?

Not as far as I know, but I'm sure someone will do it sometime.

> With IP masquerading, would it be possible to take control of
> Windoze clients on the inside of the network, that are running
> a remote control app such as Win-VNC? The PC is waiting on an
> 192.168.1.x address, whilst the ISP assigned address to the PPP
> link is in the 196.x.x.x range. Does the e-smith server
> translate these incoming requests backwards ?

No, it doesn't. IP masquerade only translates outgoing connections. Incoming connections to ports which don't have a waiting application running on the server are rejected.

Charlie