Ok here's my setup.

I have 2 computers running the most up to date ubuntu (hardy, all updates intact), and a laptop running vista.

I follow the tutorials on the internet about how to ssh from terminal.

ssh username@servername:24 (have it on port 24 because other computer uses 22)

ssh username@192.168.1.99
ssh username@<external ip>

My router is using dd-wrt, and has ports 22 and 24 properly forwarded.

Server 1 can't ssh Server2, or the other way around.
My vista laptop using PuTTY can access both of them.

Am I using the command incorrectly?
To change the ports I edited the "port:" in ssh_config and sshd_config

Thanks,
-SS

Why are you using port 24? Multiple computers can connect on port 22 and multiple servers can listen on port 22, so I don't follow your logic.

Do you have the ssh daemon running on the server? Do you have port 22/24 open on the firewall? Exactly what message do you get when you try to connect?

Is the <external ip> you have mentioned on the lan or on the internet somewhere else. If it is on site, you need to connect to it on the lan through a lan interface with a local ip. That interface needs the ssh port open as well in the firewall.

Also try using the verbose option "-v" to get more information on why you can't connect. It could be a connection problem or an authentication problem.

Hey, thanks for your replies.

-v returns:

I can, however, connect with windows to both of them, so I know ssh is running and is accepting connections on the ports I specified. I'm using my external IP (ISP assigned IP, not router-assigned) to connect, hence the different ports.

I don't have a firewall running on the linux machines, I don't have anything to safeguard.


When I use my external IP address I have 22 and 24 forwarded so I can go straight to the computer I choose. If there's a way for both of them to listen on 22 and know which one I'm talking about then please share, you know something I don't :P

No, your use of ports makes sense.

Your syntax is wrong. You need ssh -p24 IP

That was exactly the problem! Thanks so much!
I shouldn't have assumed it would work the same as everything else I guess :P

If he also want to access his computers from the Internet, then he will be able to forward different ports at the router to different hosts. However most routers will enable one translate ports as well.

That's what he said in post #4

I meant that one may be able to forward from port 24 on the router input to port 22 on a certain machine, using the router's configuration alone. Which I believe was a question on post #4.

It depends on the router, but this would allow using the standard ssh server configurations.

That's how I'd read it too.

Rgds

Ok I see where you were coming from. While that would have worked too, it's more work than it's worth to do it that way at this point, as easy as it is xD

I put linux on my router not that long ago, so glad I did.

You need to balance the work in configuring the router to forward the different ports to different IPs at port 22 versus the work needing to use different ports for each host when working inside the LAN. You either need to remember that hostA used port 22 while hostB uses port24, etc. or create a wrapper that remembers this for you. IMHO, it would be easier to have the hosts inside the LAN using the same port.

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