How to get in through a router -- SOLVED, embarrassingly

[beartooth]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:25:47 -0400, I beartooth wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:58:50 -0700, Longman, Bill wrote:
 [snipperoo]
> OK; I sent that to my usenet email account ...and will try your
> sugestions tomorrow, then report. Many many thanks!

Bill very kindly sent me another message under the list, with more
explanation and a very nice diagram -- hypothetical, he said, but dead
right in all essentials -- and that led me to the solution.

Trying to be very careful to get a reply exactly right made me discover
the real problem: plain dumb operator error. First, "/sbin/services
iptables stop" did work perfectly well this morning -- musta thunk I was
root and not been, or something equally stupid.

Second and even worse, I was on the wrong line of the router's dhcp client
table. x.y.x.103 was really my XP machine (which was shut down, as usual;
it runs only stuff I can't yet under linux, like NASA's Worlwind program).
Once I did ssh x.y.z.104, everything worked.

My face is red -- redder than usual -- but I'm a happy camper. Thanks
loads, Bill!

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