static IP & DHCP problems on LAN

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Wed Mar 13 13:18:45 UTC 2013


On 2013-03-12, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 10:33 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> If I'm inside the LAN, I ssh to the fixed IP address.  If I'm outside,
>> I ssh to a no-ip.com hostname, and the NAT router forwards the port to
>> the fixed LAN IP address.  (There's no way to do the port forwarding
>> on my equipment without a static LAN IP.)
>
> Oh yes there is! :-)
>
> Set up an IPv6 tunnel on your home server, set up another one on your
> laptop, and it will be as if NAT had never existed. Don't forget to put
> appropriate filters on the tunnel interfaces. Some tunnel providers even
> put the tunnel endpoint address in the DNS for you - all of them give
> you the same addresses every time, so you can put it in your own DNS or
> just in your /etc/hosts file.

I've read this subthread with interest, but TBH it sounds like a lot
more work than my current set-up!  Thanks.





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