how to setup a remote login servic

[Berna Massingill]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:18:44PM -0500, J. K. Cliburn wrote:

>>  On 4/17/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>  > I want to check on this, If the home machine is connected to a ADSL
>>  > router the ip address of the home machine is masqueraded and has an 1p
>>  > like 192.168.1.100. Are you suggesting that it is possible to ssh to a
>>  > machine masqueraded behind a router that way? I always thought that was
>>  > not possible. Is it?
>>  
>>  I do it every day.  My home Fedora machine is 192.168.1.3.  I have
>>  port 22 forwarded to it from the ADSL modem/router.  I use
>>  dyndns/ddclient to provide name/IP resolution.  Works fine.
>>  

The key here, though, is "I have port 22 forwarded to it", right?
Without that step, ssh'ing to the machine behind the router / modem
isn't possible, right?  That also was my understanding, which it 
would be nice to confirm.

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