Re: Accessing host behind NAT via ssh?

From: Ari Pollak (compwiz-news@spam.ebnj.net)
Date: 11/16/02 

From: Ari Pollak <compwiz-news@spam.ebnj.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 02:09:18 GMT

Whoops, looks like it works now with '-R 10022:localhost:22'. Too bad
that wasn't really self-explanatory.

Ari Pollak wrote:
> Here's the situation:
> Let's say my laptop at school is behind NAT, which means it does not have
> a publicly accessible IP but has full access to the Internet, and I do not
> have access to forward ports on the machine that does the NATing. I would
> like to be able to SSH into my laptop from my home computer, which has a
> publicly accessible IP and is directly connected to the Internet, once some kind
> of tunnel has been established. Is this possible with SSH? If so, how?
> I've tried variations of the -R option to ssh from the laptop, such as
> 'ssh -R 22:homemachine:10022 homemachine', but they generally spew
> out an error message.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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