On 11/14/05, Jack <quiet_celt@yahoo.com> wrote:

Here's the thing, the computer is using a private ip
address. So in order to find out what his ip address
was, I connected from his machine to one of mine, thus
capturing the ip address in my logs (sure I know there
are other ways).

So, when I try to connect from my machine, to his I
get connection refused. While I can ping his box, and
it
appears to be up, neither ssh nor telnet work.

Since he's using a private IP address, he's using NAT. The 'DSL modem' (which should be called a 'router' or even a 'brouter') might even be handling it. You are NOT pinging his box; you're pinging the router. It needs to be configured to forward the traffic to his box, assuming that SWB allows you to do that.

Find out what his default gateway is and have him connect Firefox to that ip to see what's there. Most routers will offer some kind of web interface.