* Joshua Lutes [Sat, 26 Jan 2008 at 09:33 -0700] <quote> > Thanks guys. I am thinking that maybe I could make a python script that > would store my ip address in a system variable and then every hour go to > www.whatismyip.com and compare it with the actual ip address. If it changed > it would store it as the new system variable and then email me what the new > ip address is. I haven't really written a script before so that would be > kind of fun to try to do. Or I could use DynDNS. That seems viable. > > A quesiton about forwarding on port 22. My sister and a good number of my > friend's use my wireless router to connect to the internet. Will forwarding > on port 22 introduce security issues for people running Vista or XP?
You would only be forwarding port 22 to that single computer. So no, it won't effect any others. Von Fugal
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