On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:44:11AM -0400, J. Scott Olsson wrote:
> All,
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance.

Ignorance?  What's that? :-)

> Question: I have a linux box sitting behind a wireless router at home
> (the router instantiates the DSL connection and gives our IP's to my
> home machines via dhcp).  How can I ssh into one of those machines
> from outside?

As an alternative to the (perfectly good) port forwarding suggestions,
what I like to do is actually have an old linux box do the NAT'ing for
me, then I can actually ssh to that, and then ssh in to machines on the
internal network.  The NAT box doesn't need any sort of hardware on it -
I was using a 100Mhz Pentium for the longest time.  Having your NAT be a
linux box allows all sorts of other flexibility, such as better firewall
rules and NATing for more complex protocols (like quake).  All you have to do
is setup the wireless router not to NAT.

Just a thought,

- Rob
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