im planning on assisting some people over ssh

i assume i need static ip on laptop and portforwarding on wifi , on both endpoints
laptop -> wifi/dhcp -> internet -> wifi/dhcp -> laptop

how do i setup static ip in antix?

if i do it like this -> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
after connecting,i lose connection

if i do it before connection its changed upon connecting to wifi
also this -> iface eth0 inet static
doesent work

what are some good practices for this, certain security settings, ports, limits

I think you'll just need port forwarding on the server side.

You might also want to check out 1-to-1_assistance, available in the repo. I did a video on it here:

Follow the video that D-O has and you can't go wrong.