<![CDATA[How to access GUI over the internet]]>I am trying to access the GUI over the internet. Could you please help?

Hylante

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/21824/how-to-access-gui-over-the-internetRSS for NodeThu, 11 Jun 2026 16:04:51 GMTMon, 01 Mar 2010 13:55:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Mon, 17 May 2010 06:01:29 GMT]]>@joebobfrank:

Why is this so dangerous tommyboy? I hear lot of people connect to their computers remotely through the Internet.
Some people host their own FTP servers and some people host websites from their homes too, is this dangerous?

To a degree yes, however what you've doing here is exposing your firewall for people to probe and break into.

@joebobfrank:

What I would like to do is configure a tunnel of some sort so that when I am at a public computer somewhere I can
connect back home through a tunnel to check my e-mail to avoid the sniffers. Can this be done easily with pfSense?

Use a VPN.  pfSense supports PPTP, IPsec and OpenVPN.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/232864https://forum.netgate.com/post/232864Mon, 17 May 2010 06:01:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Mon, 17 May 2010 02:07:26 GMT]]>hylanthe, I think it is better to access the GUI from home. The GUI is for configuring the router. Why would you want to do that remotely? You could lose the connection in the process.

@hylanthe:

I am trying to access the GUI over the internet. Could you please help?

Hylante

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/232850https://forum.netgate.com/post/232850Mon, 17 May 2010 02:07:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Mon, 17 May 2010 02:04:57 GMT]]>Why is this so dangerous tommyboy? I hear lot of people connect to their computers remotely through the Internet.
Some people host their own FTP servers and some people host websites from their homes too, is this dangerous?

What I would like to do is configure a tunnel of some sort so that when I am at a public computer somewhere I can
connect back home through a tunnel to check my e-mail to avoid the sniffers. Can this be done easily with pfSense?

@tommyboy180:

You might want to install the denyhosts package if your going to be running a pfsense ssh server in the open!
Very dangerous, but with proper control ssh could be a good solution for accessing your pfsense web gui from the inter tubes.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/232849https://forum.netgate.com/post/232849Mon, 17 May 2010 02:04:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:30:17 GMT]]>You might want to install the denyhosts package if your going to be running a pfsense ssh server in the open!
Very dangerous, but with proper control ssh could be a good solution for accessing your pfsense web gui from the inter tubes.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/224714https://forum.netgate.com/post/224714Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:30:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:19:44 GMT]]>You could also tunnel a connection through SSH instead of opening up access to the web GUI on the firewall.  You would need to enable SSH and add a firewall rule to allow it through.  If you want it more secure, you could disable password authentication and use keys instead.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/224682https://forum.netgate.com/post/224682Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:19:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to access GUI over the internet on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:11:09 GMT]]>Create a firewall rule on the WAN allowing access to the WANaddress.
However i would NOT recommend to do this.

Better set up an OpenVPN server and allow access to this server on the WAN.
Then access the GUI over this VPN.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/224657https://forum.netgate.com/post/224657Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:11:09 GMT