OT: SSH on OS X

[Brent Anderson]

Hello.

I'd assume that it would only port forward on incoming WAN traffic  
since the router is performing network address translation. The  
forwarding lets the router know where incoming traffic should go  
since you could have hundreds of computers behind the same router.  
What kind of denial messages are you getting, as that could hint at  
what is causing the problem.

Also, Hamachi's GUI is Windows only IF you go through just Hamachi.  
There is a graphical client called HamachiX (http://hamachix.com)  
that does lack some of the functionality of the Windows version since  
it is not officially supported by the Hamachi team (Chatting, pings  
from in application, premium accounts, "magic ports") but does just  
as well and even lets you set up quick-connect options for FTP, AFP,  
SFTP, and other services. HamachiX is nice if you want the GUI, but  
the command line version (Which, I believe, is installed by HamachiX)  
is very functional and is sometimes preferable to the GUI if you're  
trying to troubleshoot your Hamachi connection. Type "hamachi -h"  
from the command line for usage information once it's installed on  
your system. If you're just looking for the command line, the source  
compilation instructions are rather lightweight and can be found in  
the included README file. It doesn't tell you that to do something as  
root you prepend the command with the command "sudo " and enter your  
administrator password.

Thanks,
Brent Anderson
CMSEC


On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Brent Anderson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Using either Hamachi or a VPN should be all you need to connect  
>> any group of computers across the internet for any service,  
>> including VNC.
>
> I was just looking at Hamachi but it is pretty much Windows-only.  
> They say you can compile it for Linux and OS X but that's beyond me.
>
> Meanwhile, I am finding that I can ssh over the local network only  
> to one machine. Attempts to connect to any other local machine are  
> denied (they all have port 22 open on their firewalls.) I thought  
> that if I was using local IPs (for example, ssh user at 192.168.0.6)  
> that the router would allow traffic to pass anywhere inside the  
> LAN. But it isn't working that way. I can ssh only to the computer  
> that is receiving the port forward from the router. Is that correct  
> behavior? Is it supposed to forward all traffic on port 22 from  
> both the LAN and the WAN?
>
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