Toronto Hydro Wifi

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 14:36 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:52:23PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> >>       I cannot imagine having 15 minutes of inactivity. Between
> >>       checking mail and newsgroups, my network connection is never
> >>       idle that long.
> > 
> > What if I want to SSH to my home machine though?  Their connection
> > wouldn't work at all for any kind of connection inbound to your home
> > network if you use their service as you internet connection.  I guess
> > not having a static IP would be another problem to deal with.
> 
> SSH would depend on whether they use NAT.  If so, you're out of luck.

If you have a remote machine, you can have the home machine ssh to it
and forward a port from the remote machine (say, 1022) to port 22 of the
home machine.  Then to connect to the home machine, you just ssh
remote-machine -p 1022

behdad

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