On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> >     box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
> >     I never studied.  yuk.  
> 
> I assume your "HW firewall" protects you to the outside. Of
> course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
> the "tao" box _if_ you want it that way.


        my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
        initial setup listed my internal IP as

        10.47.0.114,

        but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to

        10.47.0.113 .

        after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.


> But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
> that might block SSH connections to "tao", no matter from
> where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
> ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
> enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
> matter if it's running.
> 

        I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
        ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} "pfw".  I got quite good
        at it.  I should learn more about plain "pf" and pfSense.
        do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
        that would explain a Lot!

> 
> > > > > The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
> > > > > using and is very different among the Linusi.
> > > > 
> > > >         rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
> > > > had
> > > >         trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
> > > 
> > > There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
> > > set up on Fedora:
> > > 
> > > http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
> > > 
> > > Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
> > > also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> >     thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
> 
> Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
> It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
> mentions the "built-in" firewall that has to be configured
> to allow connections to that server.


        the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
        and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
        not sure... .

> 
> >From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
> time), this looks like what you need to do.
> 

        well, the deal is that my volunteer system admin worked for 
        red hat for about 5 years.  I'm more used to ubuntu, but my
        friend says that im on my own....

        anyway, things are starting to eork.  [!]


> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

-- 
 Gary Kline  kl...@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service Unix
              Twenty-six years of service to the Unix community.

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