[TenTec] Omni VII / Static IP address

[Keith Hamilton]

Wish I understood all of this!  Instead of getting into a discussion that would probably bore the group and make them angry, could you lead me and others to a web page or site that would be helpful to a novice in setting up his new Omni VII on the internet???  That would save a ton of bandwidth and make me a good neighbor! :)

Thank you and 73!
Keith Hamilton N8CEP



On Oct 18, 2011, at 5:42 PM, geoffrey mendelson wrote:

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> On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:27 PM, John/K4WJ wrote:
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>> A friend is going to purchase an Omni VII so that he can remotely  
>> access it from his current noisy and antenna restricted building.  
>> I'm trying to shorten the learning period required to get everything  
>> working properly.
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> First thing you do is to use a router to connect to the internet.  
> Using port forwarding, aka virtual servers, you forward data from the  
> router to the radio.
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> Then you sign up for a free account from one of the free domain  
> servers that the router supports. Just about every router made in the  
> last 5 years supports DynDNS.org, and there are lots of others.
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> When you sign up you pick a free hostname using one of their free  
> domains. Let's say they provide one called homeradio.org (a random  
> example). You could pick W1AW if that was your callsign and make it  
> w1aw.homeradio.org. You are better off using security via obscurity  
> and making the domain name something you will remember but no one else  
> will, and is not already in use.
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> Then he sets up the router so that when it connects to the internet it  
> updates his DNS name to the current IP address. Then he would just  
> connect to w1aw at homeradio.org.
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> If the software on the computer allows you to select the TCP/IP port  
> it uses and the router allows you to set port forwarding to a  
> different port, then you can use a port that is not normally used  
> which makes it harder to find.
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> In this case the example would be if the radio used port 80, having  
> the router forward it would be dangerous because it is a common port  
> and often used in hacking attempts. If you had port 12345 forwarded to  
> 80 on the radio then it would be less likely to be hacked (or  
> attempted).
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> This is going to get more complicated, but if I were doing it I would  
> install a small computer there and have it connected to the router  
> too, without forwarding the radio port. I would install an SSH server  
> so that I could connect to it through the router using SSH encrypted  
> port forwarding. I would also set up SSH so that it only accepts 4096  
> bit keys for authentication and not passwords or shorter keys. If you  
> don't know what I am talking about, ask someone who is a professional  
> UNIX/LINUX sysadmin, they do it often. (or you can contact me off the  
> list).
> 
> Geoff.
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> Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
> My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(
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