We run openSUSE (11.2, and soon 12.1) in vehicles out on the road. They are all over the place. Sometimes it would be nice to access these systems from the comfort of the office. Especially when they are thousands of kilometers away. So, I am exploring what options there are for openSUSE. I think there are many. So perhaps I mean which option combination is the best. I think the basic connection will be from a telephone that supports tethering. We expect that to be supplied by the local user. It would be connected to the USB port of the openSUSE computer. Once connected, openSUSE needs to get on the network. I would imagine that a telephone that supports tethering handles the IP address assigned to the computer? How it gets the address is of no concern. The computer will get an address. Right? Once it has the address, should it be possible, knowing the IP address, to access the computer from the outside world? The whole discussion here assumes that this is possible. Perhaps that is controlled by the telephone? Or the local phone company? If the IP address could be accessed, I guess the next step might be to register it with a dynamic DNS service so it can be know to us. Any suggestions on a DNS service? This will be used rather seldom. Mainly in times of difficulty or support. I could even consider a stupid solution where the system copies a file to a known IP address that we could look at. After that, the rest must be the regular service configurations. Anyone else been there done that? Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org