[clug] ADSL modem woes

Paul Wayper paulway at mabula.net
Thu Aug 21 13:07:51 GMT 2008


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Pilcher, Fred wrote:
| I've been helping a friend move into the light, and I want to set up
| remote access via krfb.
|
| Problem is that I can't connect to her Telstra ADSL modem, nor can I
| even ping it, though she can ping me. I can't see anyhing in the modem
| settings that would be blocking ping responses or remote connections.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas?

BTW, have a look into using dyndns.org.  She can run a small program on her
computer to keep her-machine.dyndns.org (or a variety of other domains)
pointing to her internet-facing IP address.  It makes it much easier for you
to connect to her computer.

Hope this helps,

Paul
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