RE: More on port forwarding(ssh, netcat and amule!)
Hello,
A port number identifies a process running in your machine, then is implicit that a process must be running and listening on that port. When your netcat try to connect it will probably receives an ICMP packet advertising the "Connection Refused" or an TCP segment with the flags RST set on.
Hope this can help you.
Pietro.
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From: robomod@news.nic.it [mailto:robomod@news.nic.it] On Behalf Of houkensjtu
Sent: giovedì 11 ottobre 2012 10:53
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: More on port forwarding(ssh, netcat and amule!)
Hi debianer!
I post a question about port forwarding yesterday and got quick reply, big thanks!
Now I still have sth. not clear and it can be described as:
I have a laptop in my home, which is connected to my router. Yesterday, I succeeded in open a ssh port(22) on router, and start ssh server on my laptop. Now I can access my laptop from office by ssh USER@my_home_external_ip.
Also, scan port by using netcat from office:
nc -vz my_home_external_ip 22
gives me:
Connection to my_home_external_ip port [tcp/ssh] succeeded!
Today, I tried to open another port on my router, let me call it 1234. And I set amule on my laptop to use port 1234 for both tcp and udp. Fortunatelly, I got a High ID as expected.
And then I got confused.
I tried to scan port 1234 from my office:
nc -vz my_home_external_ip 1234
it says:
nc: connect to my_home_external_ip port 1234 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
However, after I remote access my laptop, launch amule on it, netcat now can:
Connection to my_home_external_ip 1234 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
It seems that, not only on the router, but also I should open a specific port on my laptop, otherwise netcat will not be able to connect from outside my home.
I wonder why this happens and what is the mechanism behind it.
Is it possible to open a port in debian, without launch certain software so I can netcat from outside to my home laptop?
Thanks!
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