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

[Chris Booth]

vtun?

https://github.com/nezticle/RaspberryPi-BuildRoot/blob/master/package/vtun/vtun-3.0.2-001-Makefile.in.patch

Cheers,

Chris Booth

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> From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:nottingham-
> bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jason Irwin
> Sent: 07 May 2015 09:04
> To: Notts GNU/Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Nottingham] Dealing with a router that does not support Port
> Forwarding
> 
> Yes indeed, I have come across such a beast. In theory it should be possible
> (they have predefined ports for "World of Warcraft" etc) but it does not work.
> 
> It's a Telefonica Movistar Homestation, OEM is ADB Broadband Italia. I found
> the docs for both companies and the ADB ones say it does do it but it's not
> available on the firmware Telefonica Movistar ship. I managed to find an OEM
> hidden-page where I can get at the actual firmware (looks like a stripped
> down DD-WRT to me) but a port-forward option is missing.
> 
> The router supports FTP, SSH, and Telnet; but no amount of name/password
> guessing could get me in.
> 
> I was expecting many issues but this had me stumped on the last day.
> This leaves me with a RasPi in a foreign country that I can't easily SSH into
> because some ass-hat knobbled a basic feature of a router that even the
> cheapest, nastiest things support out-of-the-box.
> 
> Is there any way for me to somehow get the RasPi to punch-out from the
> remote LAN and give me SSH access?
> Something about SSH reverse-proxy is rattling around the dusty corridors of
> my mind, but I've never done such a thing.
> 
> I can do a screen share to a Windows box where I installed Cygwin, so I can
> access the Pi that way to set things up.
> 
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