So this is my setup, I have a wireless router (dlink dir-615) connected to my cable modem in a seperate room. I have my laptop (192.168.0.101) connected wirelessly to the router, then I have my sun t2000 connected via ethernet to my laptop for internet. The server's IP is 192.168.200.100, the laptops eth ip is 192.168.200.110. If i wanted to telnet to the server from outside my local network, how would I do that?

Hi austinramsay. You would be better off using ssh in lieu of telnet, but it would look like this:

Where xx.xx.xx.xx is the ip address of the machine you wish to access and zzz is the port number on which you would like access. The port number is optional, if not specified it will use port 23. Again, I suggest ssh as it's secure.

Good luck. ;-)

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whatever protocol you use, you would need to set up port forwarding on your router.

Sorry, I missed the last part of the statement:

For that, as schneidz stated, you'll need to setup port forwarding on the router. Here are a few links to aid you.

http://support.dlink.com/emulators/d...ort_adv.htm#06

http://portforward.com/english/route...615/TELNET.htm

http://portforward.com/english/route...IR-615/SSH.htm

Good luck. ;-)

So how would i setup forwarding? I mean like would I say forward port 23 to 192.168.200.100 (the t2000's address) or would I have to forward it to my laptop that the server is connected to? (192.168.0.101)? If its forwarded to the laptop, then wouldnt i have to forward it from there to the server? Whats the process to do that? Thanks for the help by the way guys.

The router will need to forward requests from the outside world to your server (every brand and model router is different).

I understand but the thing is the server is not directly connected to the router. The servers connected to my laptop (which is connected to the wifi). So do i need to tell the router to forward port 23 to my laptop? Then make the laptop forward that port to the server? How would i do that?

Yes, but I would use ssh instead.

This seems related: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...6/#post3804866

If I read this correctly, you will need to tell your router how to reach the 192.168.200.x subnet.

Set a route on the router for that subnet and make the gateway your laptop's IP (192.168.0.101).

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How can I do that? Im in the routing settings on my router page, I set 192.168.200.100 (server) as the destination ip, 255.255.255.0 as the netmask, and the gateway as my laptop (192.168.0.101). But when i try to save settings it says:

"The 4th range of IP address must be between 0" ??

FIXED! Okay so I set the routing settings like cospengle said and it worked. I set the subnet mask to 255.255.255.252 and for some reason it let me set 192.168.200.100 as the destination ip. Can someone explain this to me? I know the subnet mask tells what range of IPs to use right? But why did this work?

For anyone else who needs this later:
I forwarded port 23 tcp and udp to my laptop's ip (192.168.0.101)
Then went into my routers routing settings, and set the destination ip as 192.168.200.100(server) and the gateway as 192.168.0.101(my laptop) because the server is connected to the laptop.