Re: ftp/ssh services behind a router and firewall

[Joss Winn <joss@josswinn.org>]

Thanks, your reference to port forwarding was all i needed. i looked
at the router, twiddled with it a bit and have port forwarding on
ssh and ftp.  All seems fine except one thing:

from my remote shell account at freeshell.org, i can ftp into my debian box
without a hitch.  however, i can't ftp into the same address from
home, nor can a friend from his machine.  Any ideas why ftp from
freeshell.org works and the other attempts do not?  ftp from home
to other ftp addresses works fine. I'm running proftp

cheers,

I'd spent hours messing around with my router and firewall and the
answer was so simple....

Joss



On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:50:52PM -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> It depends whether your router supports port-forwarding or not. Hopefully 
> it's somewhere in the admin interface. Of course, you could also just make 
> your debian box be the firewall, in which case I could give you explicit 
> instructions :)
> 	-Josiah
> 
> 
> On Sat, 24 May 2003, Joss Winn wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone point me to documentation or pass on advice for the
> following:
> 
> I have just bought a speedtouch 510v4 router. I have a dynamic ip
> address which pretty much stays the same.  I'd like to be able to
> remotely ssh and ftp into my debian box which sits behind a local firewall.  
> How do I get the router's ip address x.x.x.x. to forward from these ports to 
> my local address which the router forces to 10.0.0.1  ?
> 
> Am I thinking about this in the right way?
> 
> I've messed around with local networks before, but never had a
> router to deal with.
> 
> thanks very much
> 
> Joss

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