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Links Bar
Link:
Remote Access
When you click
Remote Access
, the
Enable Remote Access
page appears.
This link allows you to authorize a remotely-located person, such as a support technician,
to directly access your Motorola Netopia® Gateway. This is useful for fixing configuration
problems when you need expert help. You can limit the amount of time such a person will
have access to your Gateway. This will prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining
access after the time limit has expired.
•
Enter a temporary password for the person you want to authorize.
•
Select a
Timeout
period for this password, from the pull-down menu (5 – 30 minutes,
or Unlimited). Remote Access authorization lasts for a selected period of inactivity, after
which it is automatically disabled again, to protect against unauthorized access
attempts to your Router. Selecting
Unlimited
will enable remote access until the Router
is rebooted. Be sure to tell the authorized person what the password is, and for how
long the time-out is set.
•
“Permanent” remote access to the router (i.e. access which is not disabled after the
router is rebooted) may be configured in the CLI. See the command
“
set ip dsl
vccn
r
estrictions { admin-disabled | none }
” on page
216
. To make remote access “perma-
nent,” you would use the option
none
.
This is not a recommended practice
, but may
be needed for some applications.
Click the
Enab
le
button. You can manually disable it, before the timeout period ends,
by clicking the
Disab
le
button, or by restarting the Router.