SSH between two boxes on same router

[mytruehero]

Hi. Let me start off by saying that I'm very new to all this.

I have a router in my house with two computers connected to it. What I want to do is be able to SSH from one to the other, going directly through the router, instead of going through the internet (so: [box1 -> router -> box2] instead of [box1 -> router -> internet -> router -> box2]). Is there a way to do this?

Forgive me is this is elementary; I'm still getting my feet wet.


Thanks!

[dylunio]

On box one do:

ssh 192.168.0.2

replace 192.168.0.2 with box 2's internal IP which you can get on box two with the command

/sbin/ifconfig

[mytruehero]

I had a feeling it might be something that easy. Thanks!

Another question: is there a way to get my router to display the internal IP addresses of all devices connected to it?

[dylunio]

Another question: is there a way to get my router to display the internal IP addresses of all devices connected to it?

Erm, I think it depends on the router. Type in the IP of the router (usually the same as the IP on your computer, but with a 1 as the last number) in a web browser and you should get some kind of configuration page for the router, look through it to see if it has a table with the IP's of the connected computers... (the above is true for my BT Vayager2000 router, and it should be true of others as well).