Port forwarding and ssh

[Phillip T. George]

Eric Tanguy wrote:

>I have a simple adsl router and gateway on the configuration i can allow
>to forward port 22 to a specific machine. But when i try to connect by
>ssh the machine from outside i have this answer : ssh: connect to host
>toto.homeip.net port 22: Connection refused. I disable the firewall to
>make some tries but the same. Is there a special configuration for ssh
>to allow this ?
>Thanks
>Eric
>  
>

Eric,

Can you ssh to it internally just fine?  If so, then it has to be a 
problem on the router.  IF you cannot, then you may have a firewall 
enabled on the linux box.  Let us know.

-Phillip