3G VPN, SSH and SuSE 9.3 Pro

[cyberbob]

Hi,

I've setup a laptop at home, with my 3G card connected running in VPN mode. It's running on SuSE 9.3 Pro, everything is setup (including firewalls correctly) and connects fine etc.

The problem comes in, I'm trying to SSH into the box (from outside), and it seems that I cannot connect to the machine. I was under the impression that by changing over to VPN mode, not only would I get an "external" ip (which I do get), I'd be able to connect to it from outside. But alas, so far I've had no such like.

am I still firewalled from Vodacom side (is it meant to be like that), or is there something wrong on my side?

Cyber

PS ... I've also tried the same sort of thing from Windows (with Firewall turned off completely) and same result

 

[Moederloos]

Sounds like you know your stuff, but a simple question:

Can you make a local connection (say from Windows to Linux on the internal IP address? Or better yet, a ssh connection from another Linux box)

 

[cyberbob]

yeah, that all works, I can ssh just fine on the real internal IP, and if I specify the 3G's IP from an internal machine, that connects just fine. That's why I'm tending to think that it's actually firewalled on Vodacom's site.

Not sure if by running 3G on the VPN APN, if thats supposed to give me access from outside, as I know normally (internet apn) that you are firewalled from Vodacoms side, anyone know more about this?