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Chris Buechler wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:01:43 +0100, Alex Dyas > <alex dot dyas at psineteurope dot com> wrote: > >>However, no matter what I try I cannot get ssh working from the Internet >>to any of the machines. Logging on M0n0wall shows that the traffic is >>accepted right to the machine, but blocked going back out. A tcpdump on >>the machine verifies that it does see the incoming traffic, and that it >>tries to reply. > > Sounds like the return traffic is hitting NAT on the way out. Enable > advanced outbound NAT and it should route it back out rather than > trying to NAT it. > > -Chris Excellent, it works. So why is that? I'm guessing because I'm using public IPs behind the firewall, where a more conventional setup would use a private address space and NAT? Thanks again :) Alex. -- -= Alex Dyas , UNIX , DC Ops , PSINet , Geneva =- |