[Nottingham] Dealing with a router that does not support Port Forwarding

[Paul]

That sounds like the router does not actually do port forwarding. Port 
forwarding maps a port on the outside interface and forwards that port 
to an internal computer. If your router supports uPnP you could try one 
of addons for Linux that add this functionality.



On 07/05/15 11:09, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 07/05/15 10:58, Paul wrote:
>> next locate your distributions ssh server config (Debian its calld
>> sshd_config and is located in /etc/ssh)
>> Now you need to open the file in your text editor (nano, vi, emacs) and
>> find the line Port 22
>> and add directly under it the line Port 27950
>> save the file and restart the SSH server.
> I've already done that to move SSH to a non-standard port, although I
> did now know I could define multiple ports. Neat!
>
> The problem is that even though I have told the the router to pass that
> non-standard port through; it does not work.
> Advanced port forwarding (e.g. port 12345 to foo:22) is not supported
> either.
>
> I need a way for the Pi itself to punch out through the firewall and
> connect to another server or something, from which I can then access the
> Pi as the router is totally useless.
>

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