networking problem

[Dave Cramer]

Use OpenVPN

Far simpler than anything you are attempting.

Dave

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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