remote login

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

> I should have clarified this earlier.  I am using Bellsouth DSL, with a
> Westell Wirespeed modem, an eth cable between the "router" and my eth card
> on my PC.  Using IE in Windows, I was able to log into the router and set
> it up for IP passthrough.  Now, I have been able to log into WinXP
> remotely fine, but I would rather play with Linux.
>
> As I've said, I have SSH services turned on in my System Settings, but I'm
> not sure if there is something else I need to set up in Linux.
>
> I just checked the version of PuTty that I use at work, and it does
> default to telnet and not SSH (didn't think to check that earlier).  I
> can't try it now because Bellsouth dynamically assigns  public IP's, so I
> don't know what the new IP is for my box.  I've been using ipchicken.com
> to get my public IP, but is there a way to check that from the terminal?
> I know in WinXP you can use ipconfig at DOS, but I don't know what the
> Linux equivalant to that is.

ifconfig in all Unixes. The name of the adapter changes, but on Linux it's
most likely eth0. A typical output from ipconfig is:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:B3:BF:A6:70
          inet addr:192.168.1.9  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3127576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1449963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:3679469150 (3509.0 Mb)  TX bytes:264559234 (252.3 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:12176 (11.8 Kb)  TX bytes:12176 (11.8 Kb)



>
> Thanks for the replies and help.
>
>
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