[RndTbl] ipchicken.com and access by an outside PC

[Bill Reid]

Mel Seder wrote:
> 
> I'm running Red Hat 7.3 (KDE) behind a firewall (a lan fed by a
> router).
> 
> I'd like to be able to SSH into my computer from the outside world and
> wonder what needs to done to get at my machine.  When I installed 7.3 I
> chose the NO firewall option.
> 
> IPChicken displayed my IP address as it is known to the outside world
> and Leo Laporte of the Screen Savers TV show on Tech TV mentioned
> something about DMZ for people behind a firewall.  I don't know what he
> was referring to.  Would someone please enlighten me :-)
> 

You turn on port forwarding(tcp and udp) in your router for port 22
(ssh). You will also set it up to forward traffic for that port to the
IP address of your Linux host.

You did the right thing in picking the no firewall option.

- Bill
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