prescient shell | Port forwarding

[thomas@]

Good day guys, 

I received my lan turtle a few weeks ago. 

It's been working great. I've had it setup to digitalocean box with Autossh

 

Today I wanted to switch it over to my home office and have it autossh to a VM 

I'm probably missing something very basic. 

I've looked over the video Darren as done at for prescient shell and autossh

 

Ok setup working backward.

 

Kali Light (VM) - XenServer - Untangle router/firewall - Modem - Outside

I have Untangle port forwarding to XXXX to Kali light to port 22

I'm able to make a SSH connection using XXXX from the outside fine.

I've set up keys fine. 

But when logged into Kali Light and I try to loop back to the turtle by doing a ssh root@localhost -p 2222 I get an error
Connect to host localhost port 2222: connection refused. 

 

Am I missing something very basic? it's usually the case lol...

 

 

Thanks

[SilverDollar]

new network, possibly new firewall too. Be sure the port isn't blocked going out as well as in. I'm no expert, but try port 443 as a test to see if it works. If it does, then you know something is blocking port 2222