Re: ssh won't work through router/firewall

From: David Stites (david_at_dstites.net.invalid)
Date: 04/27/04


Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:35:37 GMT


"pt" <mnemotronic@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:da662010.0404261928.4235ad97@posting.google.com...
> "David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:<vN4jc.42082$G_.30643@nwrddc02.gnilink.net>...
> > "pt" <mnemotronic@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:da662010.0404252124.89b996c@posting.google.com...
> > > I have a RHL 9 box I'm trying to ssh to (eventually from work). From
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > You can't connect to your WAN address from inside your LAN. Try it from
the
> > outside.
>
> Actually, once I got the hosts file straight, it does. Which makes
> sense. The router's WAN IP address is just another public IP address.
> When SSH packets come at it, it forwards them to the linux box, which
> does the work.
>
> [tp@turkey tp]$ ssh -l tp 24.8.x.y
> tp@24.8.x.y's password:
> Last login: Mon Apr 26 21:24:34 2004 from
> c-24-8-x-y.client.comcast.net
> [tp@turkey tp]$

I stand corrected.

-- 
David Stites
Mount Vernon, WA
david at dstites dot net


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