Re: Did somebody get into my router ?

From: Leythos (void_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:22:31 GMT

In article <415a70df$0$8581$afc38c87@news.easynet.co.uk>,
news@worldofspack.co.uk says...
> "Leythos" <void@nowhere.org> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1bc39ae5a4097073989764@news-server.columbus.rr.com...
> > You should never run remote management on home routers, if you do, run
> > them at ports 30000 and above.
>
> Would it not be more prudent to only ever allow management from the inside,
> and use say an ssh tunnel or a vpn to a PC inside the router to manage it?
> Obviously a restart of the router will result in loss of the connection, but
> normally this will cause the management connection to be lost too. At least
> you benefit from an encrypted connection to your system, and also from not
> having a simple http authorisation login exposed to the rest of the world.

Yes, I never allow remote mgt, but it appears that the user wanted to do
it - it's not enabled by default. 

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