On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, at 7:54 AM, Cliff Cummings wrote: > Hi, All - > > I have Google Fiber with Dynamic IP Address to my home-office (Static IP > Address was not an option when I signed up with the first wave of Google > Fiber Customers). > > I have a Linux laptop (running CentOS) with software and 10 licenses > that I use in some training classes. When I do training onsite, I carry > a small, local, Netgear wireless router and have my students VNC into my > Linux laptop to do labs (not a lot of heavy traffic). Students are > running my software using my licenses. This has worked well for me. > > Now the question (and possible solicitation for contractor help to set > this up, if possible). > > I am starting to do training to remote customers by WebEx. For customers > that have their own software and licenses, this works fine. For > customers that need access to software and licenses for the labs, I > would like to setup to allow customers to VNC or VPN (whichever works > best) into my Linux laptop during the training class and for perhaps up > to one additional week to complete the labs. > > Can this be done with a Dynamic IP address or do I need a Static IP > address? > > Has anybody done this through Google Fiber at home or in the office?
i have google fiber at home as well and have things set up so i can access a few services at my home from the internet. the ip address rarely changes. the only time i've had it change was when i explicitly did a dhcp release and dhcp discover. the changes are so infrequent that i can't even remember the last time i updated the dns entry on my personal domain to point to a new address. if you think that this is only going to be a temporary solution and you have a domain that you can set dns entries for, then you could just put the ip address you currently have into a dns entry and use that. using a dynamic dns service would even add the ability to update the dns entry if you ip address changes automatically and would be a better longer term solution. i haven't used one of those in years and the last one i used no longer offers it (mike shakes fist at oracle). maybe someone on the list could recommend one. the next step after getting a dns entry set up would be to simply port forward the necessary services from your public ip to you linux laptop. i don't use the google fiber router so i can't say exactly how to do this. a quick googling did result in some documentation about it. google fiber doesn't really block many ports. you would likely also want to figure out how to do the VNC sessions over an encrypted channel. again, this isn't something i've done but a quick googling of "VNC tls" and "VNC ssl" showed some promise. i'm sorry that there were a number of "i haven't tried this but look here" type comments in here. hopefully this points you a direction that you might find helpful. mike /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
