Re: [Ekiga-list] Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

[Jānis Rukšāns <thedogfarted gmail com>]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Rob <spamrefuse yahoo com> wrote:
> Thanks for this explanation, but it leaves me quite confused.

Uhh, I'll try to explain better.

> I have 5 PCs here behind a NAT router as a home network.
> I extensively use Secure Shell (SSH) as my means of communication
> to computers outside and inside.
>
> If SSH would operate like Ekiga, only one instance of SSH is allowed
> from my home network. However, I've never encountered problems
> with the number of SSH connections (and I have many connections
> simultaneously active!).

First of all, the ssh you launch from the terminal is the client - it
is only making connections to other computers, not accepting incoming
connections. The latter is done by sshd and normally there is only one
sshd running on each computer, because only one application is allowed
to bind and listen on a particular IP:port combination. You can try it
out yourself with nc: