SSH from private to public IP: Impossible??

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Alex de Kruijff wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:00:11PM -0700, Michael Alipio wrote:
>> Good Day,
>>   I used ssh to log-in remotely from work to my home
>> pc which already obtained a temporary ip address from
>> my isp, however, I failed to connect. Is it because I
>> am ssh'ing using a pc with a private ip? I tried
>> pinging my remote pc but no single packet returned..
>> I'm thinking that any other service such as ftpd or
>> httpd will not work also, though I've not tried it
>> yet. I've tried ftp'ing my home pc but using a public
>> ip and it worked.. I'm not sure if it will still work
>> from a private ip computer.
>> Any idea?
>
> So you're home PC has a public IP and you work PC has a private IP and
> is behind a NAT router? This doesn't cause problems for ssh. It more
> likly a firewall problem somewhere. Either you're firewall of that of
> the companie.
>

Maybe I missed something in the thread, but did the OP ever say he set 
up port forwarding for port 22 to his internal computer?

-Bart