On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, me wrote:
> ... > > It worked fine. And when I checked the environment variables, SSH_CLIENT > showed the address. So I was connecting from an address that was not > assigned to any interface! Never mind. I figured it out. The computer I was connected to was on the same network so it didn't actually use the IP address for the source. If I had tried to connect to anything over the internet instead of on the same network, it would fail because it couldn't route the responses back since there was no return IP address. I thought that the firewall must be seeing the incoming packets and translating the IP address and port. Instead, my 3:30 am try was just using the MAC address since it was all on layer 2. The SSH server was seeing the reported IP address but not using it at all. So what I saw early this morning now makes sense. Eric Johnson
