Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:44:11 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH through port forwarding Message-ID: <20071218054048.6EE7.A38C9147@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <f5ccf92b0712172147n5f97e8e0qf2c871753f0298bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <20071218040802.GB6678@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <f5ccf92b0712172147n5f97e8e0qf2c871753f0298bc@mail.gmail.com>
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> On December 18, 2007 at 12:47AM sham khalil wrote: > 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. Security through obscurity is a poor substitute for security. Port scanners will eventually find that port also. Have you checked to see if a firewall is set up that could be blocking the port? -- Gerard
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