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Gain remote access to Macs behind AirPort Base Stations
Authored by: Sway2000 on May 20, '03 11:29:46AM
I actually tried to get this working this morning without much success. I enabled Remote Login or whatever it's called and verified this by ssh-ing to myself. That much is set up correctly. I got my WAN IP with...well...MyIP. (As a side note, why wasn't I able to do a traceroute out to yahoo.com or something to figure this out? Traceroutes just came back blank.) So I had to trust MyIP. I was able to ping the IP. So far so good. I set up the port mapping exactly as was mentioned in this hint. However, I'm still unable to connect. I can't telnet over port 22. I can't SSH. That WAN IP just doesn't appear to be accepting any incoming connections of any sort. Any suggestions as to what else I can try?

Thanks,

Sway

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Gain remote access to Macs behind AirPort Base Stations
Authored by: mtm on May 20, '03 01:43:38PM

Make sure that you don't have the "Bridge Airport to Ethernet" option checked. I know that seems counterintuitive, but it worked for me.



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Gain remote access to Macs behind AirPort Base Stations
Authored by: Brock Lee on May 20, '03 08:43:01PM
One way to get your IP address if it's set dynamically by your ISP is to visit:

http://ipid.shat.net:80/iponly/

B.L.

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Gain remote access to Macs behind AirPort Base Stations
Authored by: chko on May 21, '03 02:10:30AM

You won't be able to access you machine (which is behind the Airport firewall) by using your external IP address, from behind your firewall.

In other words using your external IP address to access your own computer won't work. You will need a computer outside of your firewall to test if you have the port mapping correct.

If you have a snow Airport base station (with two ethernet ports) you can connect one computer to the WAN port to act as a computer outside your network. You'll just have to maunally set the IP addresses on the Basestation and the external computer.



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