[Articles] Connecting to your home network using SSH and DD-WRT

[CT Droid]

Once in a while, someone on the forums will mention how you can connect to your network at home using SSH and a DD-WRT based router. The reasons this is a popular choice is because it is fairly simple to configure, very secure, and it even works on smartphones (which is how I use it). video321 was kind enough to create a tutorial explaining how to configure your router and client so you too can connect to your home network from a remote location.

Why should you bother switching from simple port forwarding to this SSH method? Because with simple port forwarding, you are allowing anyone to connect to your services (such as Elk M1, CQC/HomeSeer/..., etc.), and while there is usually some form of authentication involved, it's just a bad idea to expose your important systems like this.

The tutorial includes many screenshots, and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to post them on the forums.



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[mustangcoupe]

great writeup, can someone expand on this and show how you'd configure to use this along with android, iphone/itouch to connect to devices inside your network? from outside

 

[video321]

great writeup, can someone expand on this and show how you'd configure to use this along with android, iphone/itouch to connect to devices inside your network? from outside

While I can't comment on using those platforms directly, I can say there are free clients for both (which is what makes SSH a good choice). Use that client in place of PuTTY in the guide and ignore the loopback settings and tunnels. Should be rather straight forward.


If someone with an iOS or Android device wishes to expand on the guide, then please be my guest.

 

[electron]

I'll try to add some Android instructions soon, it's pretty easy.