Cue,

I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier. This thread for me has become probably one of the single most important one here for me.

So about the UDP drop from the ISP. I was told by Telekom (German ISP) that anything below 1024 is normally blocked especially from the UDP protocol as this is a lower level hardware based protocol. The solution was to use a port number > 1024. I did try that and still never saw anything from the ISP modem with a machine on that network sniffing via wireshark.

I just gave up trying to send the packet directly from the N900. Now I have DD-WRT set up to only allow SSH connections, and then via tunneling I can access the GUI for remote monitoring and GUI passed WoL. I can also just use the wol command from the sshd and fire it up.

The reason I'm using the ISP modem/router, plus D-link, plus DD-wrt router is becuase the D-link router does not have a WoL module built into the firmware, and due to the Ubicom chip does not support dd-wrt, adn I'm not sure I'd want to do that as the firmware from dlink for it is pretty robust and has some nice gaming related features on it. I also have the brunt of my network on this router. Isolating the VNC server on a seperate router and LAN seems to be another safety feature here.

Not that it's really needed but is nice to have.

I don't really know how this setup could get anymore secure.

You can't do anything without a SSh tunnel, which requires keys and passwords, then there are more passwords for the VNC authentication and even windows login. Hahaha.

The only thing I'd like to do now is setup a script on the router and a shortcut for it on the n900 so that waking the computer, and possibly starting a GUI based monitoring of traffic from teh router could be done automatically. I know dd-wrt supports it, just need to set it up.

BTW thanks for this thread big time. This is what this community is REALLy about.

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