Hello Michael,
To connect to the remote machine I dialin via isdn and provide static IP adresses.
This is the log from the remote machine, so "local" is actually the remote machine I connect to: Jul 9 21:34:18 omicron ipppd[7273]: local IP address 192.168.55.100 Jul 9 21:34:18 omicron ipppd[7273]: remote IP address 192.168.55.200
this seems to work. But as soon I try to connect via ssh user@192.168.55.200 I get rejected.
--> But you say that local (=192.168.55.100) is the remote host. So you have to connect to "ssh user@192.168.55.100" to reach the remote host. Another thing to check are the routes. Enter (as root) the command route -n in a terminal session on both machines AFTER you have established the connection with ipppd. Then post the result to the list.
And the following can be found in /var/log/messages
Jul 9 21:34:22 omicron kernel: SFW2-IN-ILL-TARGET IN=ippp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.55.200 DST=192.168.55.100 LEN=6 0 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=48935 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=1032 DPT=22 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B404 02080A01E052360000000001030302)
On the remote machine I have setup the firewall2 via yast, IP Forwarding is activated and I allow for ssh.
On the remote host, you have to set FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="ssh" in the /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 file, then restart the firewall on the remote host with "rcSuSEfirewall2 restart".
I am not sure if this is the same as allowing in yast for ssh ??? Need to check.
--> I guess it is. But since local and remote IPs are on the same subnet, probably you have to set FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="ssh" because for the remote host, the SSH request is coming from internal, i.d. from the same subnet. Good luck! Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50