remote login

[arms780 at bellsouth.net]

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.

Thanks for the replies and help.