question about terminal and Putty IP

[oneofusjustin]

ok so i know how to use putty to connect to my VPS, i just plug the IP in.

But now i have a linux box i made, for now its on my local network, but soon it will be in a different location. So how do you find the IP address to log into that specific box?

 

[oneofusjustin]

i cant connect at all, i installed openssh on the box and its running i cant connect with a local ip or anythgin i keep getting connection refused

 

[theevilsharpie]

If you're getting a connection refused error, OpenSSH may not be configured to listen to external requests.

 

[oneofusjustin]

If you're getting a connection refused error, OpenSSH may not be configured to listen to external requests.

ok thanks i can now get into it on my local network using the basic 192.168.1.2 address

however here is my question.. when i take the box to its new location, how will i find what address to connect it to? is it just going to be that routers IP address with the 22 port?
, so can i plug it in, and then just go to a whats my ip site? and use that IP to connect to it from another location since obviously the local ip wont work?

 

[Nothinman]

That depends on the router/firewall setup. You can PAT any port on IP that you own/lease back to any port on any internal IP so you'll need to work with the network people at the new location.

Unless of course the box is sitting directly on the Internet with no firewall in front of it, then you would just use it's public IP.

 

[oneofusjustin]

That depends on the router/firewall setup. You can PAT any port on IP that you own/lease back to any port on any internal IP so you'll need to work with the network people at the new location.

Unless of course the box is sitting directly on the Internet with no firewall in front of it, then you would just use it's public IP.

well its just an ubuntu install sitting on a home network on a residential line, so will that just use the public ip with port 22?

 

[Nothinman]

well its just an ubuntu install sitting on a home network on a residential line, so will that just use the public ip with port 22?

Probably not since most residential lines come with a modem that does PAT so you would have to setup the portforwarding manually and then you would probably want some form of Dynamic DNS registration since your outside IP isn't static.