Toronto Hydro Wifi

[James Knott]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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

If you are away from home, how would you arrange to have your home
system SSH to you, particularly if you don't know what the remote IP is
before hand?
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