Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:47:51 +0800 From: "sham khalil" <ksham.fmc@gmail.com> To: freebsd@celestial.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH through port forwarding Message-ID: <f5ccf92b0712172147n5f97e8e0qf2c871753f0298bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071218040802.GB6678@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <340a29540712171957l7b3e426fh9f35051a7bc6d48e@mail.gmail.com> <20071218040802.GB6678@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Dec 18, 2007 12:08 PM, Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm having a difficult time working with my father to get the port > >forwarding working on his Linksys router to forward SSH requests to his > >FreeBSD machine at home. As near as we can figure, it's setup correctly. > >In case anyone here uses this router it is WRT54G and details (including > a > >users manual) can be found at, > > > http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&cid=1149562300349 > . > > > >Now, I'm in Idaho and he's in NY (which does make things difficult). Is > >there any special tricks to setting up port forwarding for SSH? Probably > >should have checked this first, but I'm going to go look on the handbook > >too, just to see. > > It should Just Work(tm). I don't have one of those handy, but > port forwarding is generally under the Advanced tab Linksys > routers. It may be called Games or something like that. Forward > port 22, ssh, to the internal IP and save the settings. > > Generally one should have a fixed internal IP for forwarding as > DHCP assigned IP addresses may change. > once you open port 22 to public ip, you'll get people try to bruteforce your machine. if you don't want that set sshd to listen to a higher number like 5522 then forward port 5522 from the router to the internal machines. unfortunately for wrt54g, you can't forward port 5522 to 22 for internal machine. sham khalil
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