Hi

I have a usrrobotics router at home and I have forwarded all my ports to a vmware virtual machine running suse 10.1.


I can connect within my local network (ssh) if I use the LAN IP (192.168.2.7) However when I try to do it from ouside I get connection timeout every single time. I've done something similar with a virtual machine running windows and I was able to rdp to my box, however I haven't been able to do it with linux.

A possible explanation would be the firewall in suse, but I even tried disabling it without luck. I also added the entry in the host.allow file

sshd : ALL : ALLOW


So the question is: how do I even know if the request is hitting the right "box" or if it is a problem with my router?

Any pointers?

First try to ssh into the real machine thats running vmware, before you try ssh'ing into the virtual machine on that machine. That way you can figure out if it's a port forwarding problem, or a vmware networking problem. If you can ssh into it, obviously it's not the router.