Trying to hack my own network =p

[Amedeo602]

ok ok, I'm not really trying to hack my network. What I'd like to do is be able to transfer files from work to my computer at home. I have a router and have enabled remote administration, but whenever I try to access it from another computer I can't establish a connection. I've tried it from home putting in my IP in IE and I can connect every time. I tried telnet and IE from work (as well as FTP) but I couldn't establish a connection. But I can still ping the router. Any ideas how I can do this? (I'd prefer to not use any programs to do this)

[Amedeo602]

PS: The router is a D-link DI-804.

[su root]

Make sure you are using the right IP.

Internal: 192.168.1.1

External: anything that doesnt' start with: 192, 10, 127, or 172.


If you are trying from within your network, using it's Internal IP, then you will be able to talk to it.

If you are trying from outside your network, using it's Internal IP, it won't work, use the External IP.

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by su root
Make sure you are using the right IP.

Internal: 192.168.1.1

External: anything that doesnt' start with: 192, 10, 127, or 172.


If you are trying from within your network, using it's Internal IP, then you will be able to talk to it.

If you are trying from outside your network, using it's Internal IP, it won't work, use the External IP.

i can't get to it at work, but i think that has something to do with the firewall....oh well

[Kingslayer]

Yes it has something to do with the firewall, but not the one at work. More than likely it is your router that isn't letting you in.

You obviously have broadband. You therefore have an assisgned IP. Let's just say that it is 255.255.255.255. Now, all of your computer in your home network are 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, and 10.0.0.4. Let's say that 10.0.0.3 has the ftp server.

What you need to do from work is type ftp://255.255.255.255 in your browser. But that only gets you to your router. You have to tell the router that all ftp requests are to be sent to computer 10.0.0.3. This is done in the NAPT section of your router. And of course you need computer 10.0.0.3 turned on and connected to the router for all of this to work.

Sounds like you are just connecting to your router and that is it. Here is something to consider with your router. TURN REMOTE ADMIN OFF! If I get the IP of your router and you have remote admin on I can take over your whole network. And at worse reflash the firmware on your router and destroy it.

Not a good thing.....

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by Kingslayer
Yes it has something to do with the firewall, but not the one at work. More than likely it is your router that isn't letting you in.

You obviously have broadband. You therefore have an assisgned IP. Let's just say that it is 255.255.255.255. Now, all of your computer in your home network are 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3, and 10.0.0.4. Let's say that 10.0.0.3 has the ftp server.

What you need to do from work is type ftp://255.255.255.255 in your browser. But that only gets you to your router. You have to tell the router that all ftp requests are to be sent to computer 10.0.0.3. This is done in the NAPT section of your router. And of course you need computer 10.0.0.3 turned on and connected to the router for all of this to work.

Sounds like you are just connecting to your router and that is it. Here is something to consider with your router. TURN REMOTE ADMIN OFF! If I get the IP of your router and you have remote admin on I can take over your whole network. And at worse reflash the firmware on your router and destroy it.

Not a good thing.....

Remote admin is on, but it needs a password to do anything thru browser or telnet. I can't find a setting for NAPT, so I probably can't do this. Oh well, it was worth a shot. :D

[Kingslayer]

If you have a router you can do this. This is exactly what routers are made for. They make routes.... And that is exactly what you are doing, routing all FTP traffic to a certain IP. Now, it's probably not called NAPT on your router. What other sections do you have? Should be things like DNS, DHCP...what else is in there?

[Amedeo602]

Available Protocol: TCP/IP, NAT, UDP, PAP, CHAP, MSCHAP, RIP1/RIP2,PPPoE, DHCP (client and server)

[Kingslayer]

Ok tell me what pap chap and mschap stand for. Unless they are calling it something of their own, it doesn't look like that router is capable of doing this, which in my opinion is false advertisement for calling it a router in the first place.

[TT120]

I have been trying to do the same thing with my system at home from work. I have an Edimax router and am not having any luck either. I'm thinking that I need to set up some kind of FTP server software on my server machine at home and then tell the router to let all FTP traffic (port 21 I think) through to the server's internal IP address. I have yet to get all this to work though.

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by Kingslayer
Ok tell me what pap chap and mschap stand for. Unless they are calling it something of their own, it doesn't look like that router is capable of doing this, which in my opinion is false advertisement for calling it a router in the first place.


Dunno what they stand for (and not in the book??)

Here's a screenie I took that looks interesting....I would try it out but I'm not @ work (done until monday :) )

[Amedeo602]

PS: the filter for WAN is exactly the same (only instead of LAN it says WAN)

[Kingslayer]

Ok i think I see what you need to do.

See those blue boxes at the bottom that say Type, Protocol, From, To, and Port range. See if you can enter that stuff in anywhere.

Type will be TCP
Protocol will be FTP
From will be your WAN IP
To will be your LAN IP of the computer the FTP server is on.
and Port Range will be 21

That should set up a valid FTP route from the router to the server.

[Amedeo602]

Originally posted by Kingslayer
Ok i think I see what you need to do.

See those blue boxes at the bottom that say Type, Protocol, From, To, and Port range. See if you can enter that stuff in anywhere.

Type will be TCP
Protocol will be FTP
From will be your WAN IP
To will be your LAN IP of the computer the FTP server is on.
and Port Range will be 21

That should set up a valid FTP route from the router to the server.

That's what I thought. I might just have to check it out. Thanks :)

PS: To any of you DI-804 owners, the filters are on the UPDATED version of the firmware (at the company's website).

[Shep]

Originally posted by Kingslayer
Ok tell me what pap chap and mschap stand for. Unless they are calling it something of their own, it doesn't look like that router is capable of doing this, which in my opinion is false advertisement for calling it a router in the first place.

In case you are still wondering what pap, chap, and mschap are they are authentication protocols that ISP's use.