On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:57:39 +0000 Steve Engledow steve@offend.me.uk wrote:

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Hi folks,

I'm in need of some wizardry.

I have a machine at home that's connected to the telly so that the wife can use it for Skype (just bought a *really* nice HD webcam) and browsing etc (and I can use it for Steam ;)

What I need is for it to ssh to my server when it boots and open a port there to its local sshd so that I can ssh into it whenever I need. I'm on an ISP that will change my IP address every now and then and I don't want to muck about with dyndns etc. so this is my preferred solution.

I know how to do the ssh bit: ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 server

What I don't know is how to make it do that when it boots - obviously when the wifi gets around to connecting - and to make it resilient to drop outs, i.e. reconnect if the connection is lost.

Any ideas?

As the resident numpty here, I would set the IP address of the tv machine on the router so that it gets the same IP address whenever it starts. So you wouldn't have to change anything on the machine, just the router.

Tha's what I've done with my Pi (see my Owncloud question earlier) so that I can ssh into that on the same IP address.

You said that your ISP will change your IP address but surely that's only internet facing address and not the internal one.

Or is that not what you want to do?