networking problem

[Zbigniew Koziol]

The issue might be trivial for these who know well networking. I am not 
that one.

I will explain first in a not detailed manner. If someone thinks that a 
solution may exists, I may privately send more details.

I am at a university. Obviously, a big organization. We in our small 
group would like to have access to computers at work, our group only 
computers. An access from home, during evenings or weekends. We do a lot 
of computation.

My interaction with the person who is the main admin for university goes 
hard. He is willing to help, but he is located in another outside office 
and lazy to come to our office or send someone.

We have a connection from our office to a wire. A router is attached 
there. Our internal LAN works fine, we have internet, no problem with that.

We wanted to have access to one single computer that is inside of our 
local LAN from outside, from the internet.

We got a special IP for that, available form the internet. This is the 
point where I start to NOT understand things.

DMZ is the first idea that comes.

But router does not allow me to configure itself to allow a sort of 
strange configuration, where access to another entirely different 
subnetwork could exist. The router is D-Link DIR 120.

The idea that I heard is : does not your router has a special outside 
connector where all traffic is just passing through, so I could just 
connect there the server? No, this router does not seem to have such a 
special outside connection.

Do such routers exist? Which?

Any ideas?

zb.



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