From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 6 16:37:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4127016A4CE for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:37:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D312F43D31 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:37:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803E01162F7 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:37:01 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20041006151542.GB767@alex.lan> References: <20041006060011.92499.qmail@web90010.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <20041006151542.GB767@alex.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:37:00 -0400 To: FreeBSD Question List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: SSH from private to public IP: Impossible?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:37:05 -0000 On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:11PM -0700, Michael Alipio wrote: >> Good Day, >> I used ssh to log-in remotely from work to my home >> pc which already obtained a temporary ip address from >> my isp, however, I failed to connect. Is it because I >> am ssh'ing using a pc with a private ip? I tried >> pinging my remote pc but no single packet returned.. >> I'm thinking that any other service such as ftpd or >> httpd will not work also, though I've not tried it >> yet. I've tried ftp'ing my home pc but using a public >> ip and it worked.. I'm not sure if it will still work >> from a private ip computer. >> Any idea? > > So you're home PC has a public IP and you work PC has a private IP and > is behind a NAT router? This doesn't cause problems for ssh. It more > likly a firewall problem somewhere. Either you're firewall of that of > the companie. > Maybe I missed something in the thread, but did the OP ever say he set up port forwarding for port 22 to his internal computer? -Bart