Vonage adaptor, LinkSys router and Remote Desktop Connection

Posts: 656 · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject:

Read my update. It will fix my posted issue, prevent your issue from occurring, and provide additional security from those who like to sniff out ports and run brute force attacks on such open services.

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 07, 2009 Posts: 8

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One method that will actually prevent this from occurring and is even more secure then what your doing now since your exposing port 3389 to the internet is to use Hamachi. It is a free VPN client. Run it on the client and the hosting PC. You can remove all port forwarding rules. You would then just connect to the Hamachi IP address on the host from the Remote client. The RDP session runs through the Hamachi VPN tunnel without the need to open ports. There will be you tube videos and forums to help you set this up. It is very very simple.

Will I be able to use this even if I'm using public computers that I'm not able to install softwares on them? The reason is that I generally connect to my home PC from my work computer which I don't have admin access on it and I can't install Hamachi or anything else. Will this fit my need?

Posts: 656 · Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

No. If you don't have access to install an application on the PC, this would not work for you. You will just have to keep running it as is and keep in mind that anytime the WAN Port IP on the V-Portal changes, you will need to disable and enable the port forwarding rule until this bug is fixed.

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 07, 2009 Posts: 8

Thank you for your help.