SSH to foreign router through Ubuntu server

[whiteGloveReview]

So, I have a remote SSH connection to an Ubuntu Server machine about... 100 miles away and I'm trying to configure an email server on said machine. Trouble is, I need to get into the router, that's 100 miles away, to do some port forwarding to allow those ports to go through. 

Now if I were a sane person I'd have installed a VPN, or remote control on a computer on that local network to talk to the router, but I'm not a sane person, so I didn't. 

I have a couple questions, starting with:

1. CAN THIS EVEN BE DONE?
   • Keep in mind that the OS that I'm talking to from 100 miles away is the Server version of Ubuntu, and, therefore doesn't have a GUI, so, it can't render "graphics" past ascii, so I can't do the linux equivalent of going into windows and setting up a remote desktop connection.
   • The router in question is a "cisco dpc3848vm" it was stock from the ISP in the area.
2. What do I need to do to set this up in any semblance of a timely manner?

• If there's packages that need to be installed on the Ubuntu machine to talk to the router itself
• Will there be any funny business to get the Ubuntu machine to communicate to the router?
• What's the process to do this sort of thing (if at all possible)
  • Meaning, the installation process (if necessary)
  • Configuration of any packages that'll be required
  • Getting the Ubuntu machine to communicate to the router
  • Getting the port-forwarding to happen.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

You should be able to ssh into the router after ssh into ubuntu. You could also try install Xserver and Firefox then use the -X switch, ssh -X, to log in and you will be able to launch a Firefox browser to go to router web console, or any xwindows application and it will run from your server 

[whiteGloveReview]

13 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

You should be able to ssh into the router after ssh into ubuntu. You could also try install Xserver and Firefox then use the -X switch, ssh -X, to log in and you will be able to launch a Firefox browser to go to router web console, or any xwindows application and it will run from your server 

How do i ssh into my router? just "ssh [ip address of router]"?

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

4 minutes ago, whiteGloveReview said:

How do i ssh into my router? just "ssh [ip address of router]"?

yep. admin@192.168.1.1 or .254 what ever your routers address and account name is. If it doesnt have ssh it might have telnet

[whiteGloveReview]

what's "admin@" mean?