> Thanks, I do understand that there is an internal and an external > address. I want to force my workstation to have the internal address > 192.168.1.140 so that my router will forward port 22 to the right > machine - it's set up to do that so that my windows stuff works. Can > I make Fedora assign a specific internal address? Because interally > I'm not always at 192.168.1.2; it seems to depend on which machine > logs in first. system-config-network enabled me to specify the right fixed address and ssh now works! Thanks to all.