I have my beaglebone black running stock Angstrom Linux and is connected to ethernet at my home. I can login from any PC connected to my home network using SSH. I would like to know how can I login from another network, say I am at my office and I am connected to internet. I want to login into my beaglebone black which is connected to internet at my Home. How can I do this?
Thanks in Advance
You have a public IP address, that is given to you by your Internet operator. This public IP however will be different than the IP of your Beagle in your local network.
To login to your Beagle from the Internet, you need to connect to your public IP address, and need to add port forwarding to your router, so that port 22, which is the socket port that is used by ssh, is forwarded from your public IP to your local IP.
So, you need to login to your router management console, and go to "port forwarding" options, and select to forward TCP/IP connections to port 22 be forwarded to your Beagle IP. For this to work longer term, you should set static IP address to your Beagle, otherwise if your board stays offline for long time, the DHCP server on your router will probably assign different IP at some point, and the forwarding would need to be setup again.
There is a good guide on the static IP address setting in Beagle/Angstrom here: http://derekmolloy.ie/set-ip-address-to-be-static-on-the-beaglebone-black/
One more thing: Since your operator will also assign different public IP for you from time to time, you might want to have some kind of Dynamic DNS service in use. With this kind of service, you can create your "custom" DNS address (for example user3180454.no-ip.com), that will always point to your Public IP address to which you can create ssh connection (the service will require some method to keep this IP address up to date, you will see instructions on how to do it from the service you use).
Couple services like this:
http://no-ip.com/
http://freedns.afraid.org/
You might also want to try out the Weaved connection service installer for BeagleBone Black. I'm using it to connect:
SSH on port 22
BBB web server on port 80
tightVNC server on port 5901
Shell in a Box on port 4200
Apache web server on port 8080
See:
https://developer.weaved.com/portal/members/betabeagle.php
If you are:
Connecting to from a BeagleBoard via USB Ethernet
from Mac Air running Mavericks & connected to web via Wifi
I found this very helpful:
http://makezine.com/2012/07/16/use-your-mac-laptop-as-a-wireless-proxy-for-raspberry-pi/
In short >> install/run a proxy server (with Squidman) & your life will be easier.
I know this is an old question. But I thought I'd suggest another option. I use TeamViewer (https://www.teamviewer.com) to connect to my work/home computers. You could use something like this to connect to your home computer from the office. Once connected to your home computer, you could then do whatever you need to do on your home network. No port forwarding required.
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Well I'm running ssh server on my laptop which I'm portforwarding to my router and I assume that I can now connect through my routers ipv4 and port in order to tunnel back to my laptop but it doesn't work like that does it.
Can someone explain to me what I need to do in order to make this work. Simply please I don't want to get confused and I know this is a noob question but I went straight to other things instead of learning some basics and now I'm feeling the consequences lol.
Depends from where do you want to access your laptop. If it's just from your local network or LAN, you don't need to setup anything on the router. If, however, you want to access it from the internet, you need to setup port forwarding on the router, but probably also set it up with your ISP.
SSH server setup
SSH server normally runs on port 22 (SSH port). At first your laptop's firewall blocks all incoming traffic! So in order allow people to access your laptop through SSH, you need to tell your firewall to allow incoming traffic on port 22. Also, if you haven't already, set a static IP on your laptop so that you can configure the router for port forwarding and access your laptop easily. And make sure to exclude the static address from the DHCP range (so that your router doesn't your static IP to another device).
LAN connection
In case of SSH connection only on your local network, all you need is the local IP of your laptop. That's it.
WAN connection (internet)
So first, of course, you need to enable port forwarding on your router and specify the port 22 and your laptop's local IP address. But you need to know how are you connected to the internet. Because, ISP's can have an intermediate layer (or layers) network. And this network eventhough is way bigger than you home network is still a private network, and uses private IP addresses. So in order to access your laptop through the internet, you have to talk to your ISP. And the final public IP is the one you would need to access the SSH server.
local connection
Nmap scan of public ip address
Open Port Check Tool result
Virtual server configuration
I have a linux machine on a dekstop with arch linux installed that I use as a server running Apache2 (it works perfectly fine locally), and I want to use port forwarding to access it from the public ip address.
I tried using the router's virtual server service, so I redirected my local to port 2112 of my public ip address, I already used http://www.portchecktool.com/ to scan the port, and it says that the port is open whenever I enable it (I tried changing the port number many times, 443, 22, 5555...). But when I try to connect, it says 'Unable to connect'.
(Even thought the port scanner tool says the port is open on my public ip, when I scan my router's port with nmap it says it's closed)
I know I didn't provide many details, but is there something that I'm missing ?
EDIT:
It seems that the problem only occurs locally, which is why the nmap and port checker results are different, I asked a friend of mine to connect to my public ip address on port 2112, and he told me that it's working fine, and that he could see the page, why does this problem occur ? Why can I access it from outside LAN but not from the inside ?
There are a few parts to this answer:
To keep it simple I am going to assume a few things as you did not specify too many things.
What you have
Ubuntu Server VM running on your Windows machine
What you are trying to do
Connect to the VM (running Apache2) to view a website on the server via your public IP
If either of these are incorrect let me know
Ensure you first have port-fording setup on your main router to go to your Windows machine local IP. Open the correct port that your Appache2 server is running on.
Ensure you have opened the correct port on your windows machine firewall to allow that inbound traffic
Change the network settings for your VM to bridge the connection
I am working on IOT project in which I have to change some variables(fans speed, lights, etc). So just as a starter, I created a node.js server and tried to send requests to the server through a local network using local IP as
http://localhost:7000/users=mandar?lights=OFF
or
http://192.168.43.248:7000/users=mandar?lights=OFF
and it works fine.
Now I want to do the same over the internet. So I got Computer's IP address from https://www.google.co.in/search?q=myip and tried to send a request to the following URL:
http://(IP_address):7000/users=mandar?lights=OFF
This time it keeps on loading and finally shows this site can't be loaded.
So what is the right way to connect to the server through the internet?
Thank you.
You have to do port forwarding.
The IP address you get from the google search is the out-facing IP address of your router. However, your router knows your computer by your local IP address (i.e. 192.168.x.y).
You have to configure your router to send packets coming from internet destined to port 7000(or any other port) to your computer's port 7000.
Check your router's documentation on port forwarding. Likely there is a settings page on the web interface of your router that you can do the desired port forwarding. After configuring the router, there are several tools online to test if the port forwarding is actually working. I suggest you use one of those tools to verify the configuration before testing with your project.
You also might want to check if your router has a firewall. You can add an exception to the firewall such that a specific port number is reachable from the internet.
I have the below the setup.
1)Desktop with windows 8 64bit os & Iam using net gear router connected to my desktop via Ethernet cable.
2)Currently iam using public ip or static ip(ex:123.45.67.890)from my isp.
3)Installed virtual box
4)Installed oracle linux 6.5 in virtual box
5)Installed oracle ebs.in virtual box
6)Virtual box network mode:bridge
7)My netgear router ip range 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.20
8)Assigned static ip in oracle ebs(10.0.0.30) with port 8000.
(note:the given ip is not in my router ip range)
9)Added host details(10.0.0.30 ebs.example.com) in my windows system32-->drivers-->etc folder-->host file.
Iam able to access url(http://ebs.example.com:8000) and I can ping ip of oracle ebs(10.0.0.30) from windows 8.and everything is fine.
My requirement is
10)I want to access the same url http://ebs.example.com:8000 from outside of my network.(eg:outside of my city or town).
(Note:I already tried by portforwarding 10.0.0.30 with port 8000 in my router but there is no luck)
Please can anybody help me on this request.
Virtualbox network interface in bridge mode is transparent to the router. It creates the virtual adapter in software mode and uses injection on your VB host network adapter to have the job done. It means that the router will see your VM as it does for any other computer, like if your VM were directly connected to the router. At this point you should assign a IP on the VM that's on under router IP range to avoid routing/permission/port translation problems.
Sure you will need port forward on the router but for testing purposes try to set the VM IP as DMZ on the router. With this setting all requests from outside world on any port will be redirected to the DMZ machine. If it works you can go more restrictive and forward just the needed ports.
Many ISPS blocks common server ports, like 8080. You must make sure you're using a port not blocked by the ISP. For this try setting up a service on a not common port (like HTTP on port 49010 or whatever port not listed by common services), and test it. If it works change the service to the desired port (8080), if it stops working it probably means that ISP is blocking port 8080.
You will not be able to access your VM from internet using such address like http://ebs.example.com:8000 or any other FQN in a simple manner as it does need DNS translation. Its possible doing so but you will need to buy and register some FQN and then find some service that offer DNS over Dynamic IP. Not sure what you mean by public or static IP because a static IP can be also public. In case you have a static IP you will not need specific services for dynamic IP but just the usual structure: Buy a domain name, buy or use own registar DNS servers to have a working FQN pointing to your IP.
Another approach is using a non FQN redirection service commonly used for dynamic IPs but that will work on static IPs also like DYN DNS, No-ip or any other.
With a static IP you dont even need some FQN. You can just use your IP directly like 123.45.67.890:8080 when need connection from internet.
I configured IIS in my windows 7, and when I enter 'http://localhost' in address bar; I can see my web site. Now, when I want to see my web site by entering internet IP address in address bar, I connect to the ADSL modem (it opens the page which we use to configure the modem!).
It seems that because the modem connects to the internet an gets the IP, not the PC, so the internet IP connects me to the modem. So, I think, I must change some settings of my modem.
I use a D-Link modem.
How can I fix that?
Thanks in advance
Unless you have a "server" or "business" configuration from your ISP which provides you a full subnet of public IP addresses, you've been allocated a single external IP address and the router attached to it does Network Address Translation for all the devices connected behind it. You can confirm this by using ipconfig or Windows Settings (ifconfig on Unix-like machines) to get your IP address. If using NAT, it will start with "10.", "172.16." through "172.31.", or "192.168.". These are "private" addresses and cannot be reached through the public internet.
For someone on the public internet to reach your computer, you need to set up Port Forwarding that redirects incoming traffic on your public, external IP to that port to a machine on the private network. The configuration pages for your router will have this configuration somewhere.
Note that if your router's configuration page is running on port #80 and you really want outside viewers to connect to you without giving an explicit port number, you will probably need to turn off or restrict modem configuration, move it to a another port, or go SSL only (port 443) so as to not cause a conflict with the port you're forwarding.
D-Link is a very common brand of router and there are pages dedicated to configuring port forwarding on them.
Also, just to complicate things, you almost certainly haven't been given a Static IP Address (they are usually quite expensive) which means that your external IP address will change from time to time (perhaps yearly, perhaps daily) making it difficult to tell others how to connect to your page. Your router configuration likely has support for Dynamic DNS (some free, some paid) where the router automatically updates the DNS entry whenever your public IP address changes.