[Semibug] ssh to host on local network

[Anthony Cascianelli]

Are you doing anything to NAT the port or forward the traffic through your firewall?

Anthony Cascianelli

> On Apr 28, 2022, at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Drews <jondrews at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I want to allow a friend to SSH into a machine that is on a local
> network. It is an OpenBSD machine. My internal IP addres as given my
> ifconfig is 192.168.11.21:
> 
> $ doas /sbin/ifconfig em0
> 
> em0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4>
> mtu 1500
>        lladdr 28:d2:44:b2:fb:bf
>        index 1 priority 0 llprio 3
>        groups: egress
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
> full-duplex,rxpause,txpause)
>        status: active
>        inet 192.168.11.21 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.11.255
> 
> my routers external IP address is 63.239.66.139:
> 
> $ curl https://lathama.net/ip/
> 63.239.66.139
> 
> If I do:
> 
> $ ssh guesthere at 63.239.66.139
> 
> It can't find the local machine. guesthere is a guest account on the
> OpenBSD computer. How do I add in the local  192.168.11.21 address?
> 
> I have Michael Lucas' SSH Mastery book but I couldn't find any
> examples of ssh into machines on a local network.
> 
> My machine is:
> $ uname -a
> OpenBSD leo.my.domain 7.0 GENERIC.MP#6 amd64
> 
> --
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan
> 
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