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[gbell7211]

Evening

I'm planning on using putty to ssh from my windows box to linux box, what I need to know is how I go about seeting it up seeing that both boxes will be sharing the same ip through a router?

I'm a total n00b at this and have googled for answers but have yet to come across any.

If anyone knows how I go about this or knows of a decent link that I can read, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

Gbell

[root.veg]

What I think you may be talking about is using your linux box as a gateway/router so that your internet connection you got from your ISP (on one IP address) can be shared between both boxes... am I close?

If this is what you want to do then you need to set up "IP Masquerading" on the gateway/router box. I think this term is peculiar to Linux, and other OSes call it "NAT".

That way you can use the publicly-routable IP you got from your ISP and share the connection between your two boxes which you'll assign *private* IP addresses to.

Try googling for "IP Masquerading" and searching the Networking forum on this site. Plus there's a good IP Masq howto at www.tldp.org .

Ssh is a separate issue though - you don't need ssh to set up IP-Masq-ing.

[chrism01]

Actually, if they're both local boxes on a lan, then they should both have private different ip addresses eg
Linux: 192.168.0.1
Win: 192.168.0.2

This has nothing to do with your internet connection unless you plan on using ssh across the net.
Typically, if your linux box is on the internet and on a lan, then it has 2 interfaces eg eth0, eth1.
As an example, you'd use dhcp to get a public ip for eg eth0 and assign the private address above to eth1.
The win box interface will be eth0.

If the router is a separate (3rd) box, then the interface on the linux box would be eth0, 192.168.0.1

HTH

[gbell7211]

Exactly what I was looking for thanks