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Any ideas on how to keep teamviewer for working with a linksys router

I have a linksys RV042 router. I would like to keep people from accessing their home computers with teamviewer. I realize you can just tell the employees to stop of their fired, but, it would be cool to be able to enforce policy with the router.

Kamran Arshad

Hi,

You need to forward the teamviewer port. Please check the below link;

http://portforward.com

ne3

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The problem is that teamviewer uses port 80.

http://support.teamviewer.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=10

I assume you were suggesting to port forward teamviewer to a dummy I.P. address. Which is a great idea but port forwarding port 80 would kill Internet on the entire network.

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ne3

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Qlemo,

Thank you for the idea. I understand what you are saying and I will see what I can find. I found one ip address that is used by teamviewer but the application still works ( 87.230.73.23). Anybody have a list of addresses for the teamviwer servers?

ne3

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Okay, I think I have it working. On the Linksys router I set up a rule:

Deny access from LAN to 87.230.73.23 - 87.230.73.30

It seems to work so far. From a little bit of research it looks like teamviewer uses "dyngate.com" for its connections. So, I just found the ip address and used a larger range.

If they use other ip addresses or another domain I am screwed though.

Does anybody see any problems with what I have done. I am going to keep testing for a week or so with this rule applied.