Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:08:02 -0800
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSH through port forwarding
Message-ID:  <20071218040802.GB6678@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <340a29540712171957l7b3e426fh9f35051a7bc6d48e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <340a29540712171957l7b3e426fh9f35051a7bc6d48e@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.

Bill
--
INTERNET:   bill@celestial.com  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: http://www.celestial.com/  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in
the introduction of a new order of things.  Because the innovator has
for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions,
and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
    -- Machiavelli



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20071218040802.GB6678>