Questions tagged [port-forwarding]
Port forwarding is the act of using redirecting one port to another, commonly used to access a computer from behind a firewall with NAT.
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What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
There are a lot of questions on 'port forwarding', but there doesn't seem to be one that clearly states what it is and what it's used for. So:
What is port forwarding?
What is it used for, and why ...
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Unable to access outside service from inside LAN
I have a weird port forwarding problem. I tried to open my port 22 to the outside network. I was able to access it as long as I am not inside the LAN. I can access it from my office for example. But ...
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Remote connection to a PC over internet [closed]
I have a PC running Windows Vista Home Premium with Norton Internet Security 2009. I like to help my father and sister by connecting their PCs over the internet and taking full control. My father has ...
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Set up a web server behind a Carrier Grade NAT
I was trying to set up a small home server.
I use dynamic IP adress. My router's wan adress is like this 100.70.81.xxx and my public ip is 81.213.177.xx
I made port forwarding in my router. www, ...
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Port Forwarding not working in DSL Router
I am using BSNL BroadBand connection and a DSL Router is provided that can act as a Default Gateway to many wireless devices. One such device is my server. I have bought a static ip on lease. So that ...
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SSH disable port forward remotely instead of killing process on the server
I am making an automatic remote SSH port forward request from my device every few minutes:
ssh -y -f -N -R port:localhost:22 user@server \
-o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -o ServerAliveInterval=60 \
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DD-WRT: How to allow port forwarding to apply to requests originating from inside the LAN?
With the original firmware of my router I had port forwarding defined from port 80 to the server in the LAN, which I used in conjunction with an external dynamic DNS service.
I've now upgraded to DD-...
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Connecting to my own network via external IP
Even though I have seen and read quite a few similar Q's I was still unable to understand what is required for me to be able to do this.
I have an internal network. One of the machines is a web ...
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Cannot access LAN with WAN address from within my LAN [duplicate]
Ok my title is a little bit convoluted. Allow me to explain.
I have a server in my LAN that listens for HTTP connections at let's say 192.168.1.10:1234. I can access this address from my other ...
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Port Forwarding to a VMware Workstation Virtual Machine
I am running VMware Workstation 8 (build 471480). I want to setup a small content server, mainly for images and such for my website, on my desktop in a virtual server (just for the heck of it)... I ...
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Does Wake-on-LAN via WAN needs port forwarding?
If yes, how does it work? The pc still has no ip, so where should I forward the port?
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Port forwarding not working on router using NAT?
I have a Dlink router which uses NAT and I tried several ports but every time I try to connect my server(Raspberry Pi) it says connection refused. I can’t connect to the server on the RPi itself.
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Access external IP from inside the network?
I have setup a subdomain sub.example.com in the DNS-records of my domainname-provider that I linked to my external IP. I then forwarded port 80 in the router (Sitecom Broadband Router 54G) to the IP ...
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SSH to computer with shared public IP and no admin rights over the router
I live in a student dorm (off-campus) and all students of the dorm share the same WAN IP (Internet or public IP), which is fortunately static. I am not an admin and have no control over the router ...
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Can't access VMware virtual machine through SSH
I have got a VMware Server 2 on a CentOS 5.6 host. I can access my virtual machines from the host machine, but I can not access it from other machines.
I have configured NAT port forwarding. But ...
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Why can't I connect to my VNC server from outside my network?
I have a computer running TightVNC server. It is on my home network. The computer it is installed on has a locally static ip address 192.168.1.100. I am able to connect to this vnc server from my ...
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SSH port forwarding remote to local in nested server for postgres database in one line
I have 2 servers as
[email protected] and [email protected], I want to connect to [email protected] but I cannot connect to it directly due to restrictions, I have to first connect to ubuntu@...
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How to open port via SSH tunnel?
There is a system B with the following open servers: I have a web server listening on port 80 and a ssh server listening on 22. However, only port 22 is publicly available. Now, I would like to create ...
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Open SSH port a bad idea on a Raspberry Pi?
I have a Raspberry Pi at home that I have connected to my home network. I use it to run a VPN server, SSH tunnel, and occasionally I SSH into it to perform maintenance on it.
Is it a bad idea to have ...
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Can not access server using Port forwarding
I am trying to access the server from the public ip. for that I have enabled port forwarding on the tp-link router for port 8069.
My pubic is is 123.201.xx.xx
When I try to access my public address ...
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WAMP port forwarding on Windows 7
I have a problem with port forwarding. I run on Windows 7. I have installed WAMP on my PC and I want to put it online. I disabled my firewall, apply port forwarding on my router (in my case: 8343 to ...
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How do I remove an SSH forwarded port
I used ssh -L 10002:192.168.0.30:10002 192.168.1.135 to establish port forwarding but now I need to remove it.
How do I do this?
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How to make a port forward in Mac OS X
I'd like to make all incoming connections to port 1000 of my host (IP: 200.234.XXX.XXX) to be forward to the port 80 on host 10.211.55.5
How can I do it on my host? It is running Mac OS X 10.5.8
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Howto disable SSH local port forwarding?
I have a server running Ubuntu and the OpenSSH daemon. Let's call it S1.
I use this server from client machines (let's call one of them C1) to do an SSH reverse tunnel by using remote port ...
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Windows Firewall: How to allow traffic on a specific port (eg. 8080)?
I am trying to configure team Foundation Server so that:
It is accessible from within my Home Network, and
The Web site is accessible via the Internet
I have a problem with point 1:
When I access ...
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pfctl port forwarding in Mac osx?
-A PREROUTING -s 10.0.10.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
-A PREROUTING -s 10.0.10.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
-A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.10.0/24 -o ...
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Port is open, but can't access it via external IP address
I have RavenDB running on localhost:8080. I would like to make it externally accessible, just as a test (ignore security concerns for now).
To do so, I configured my router to forward external port ...
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Why is there no UDP port forwarding in SSH?
I know SSH can forward TCP ports, not UDP. I'm not seeking help to circumvent this restriction (this subject is covered here).
I'd like to know what is the reason SSH never got UDP forwarding ability....
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Allowing access to localhost outside network
I have a Netbeans project running on localhost with Tomcat and MySQL, all is well.
I now want to show my progress to someone in another part of the country.
How do I let him access my website ...
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Iptables forwarding port/s to a external IP transparently (remote end should see the actual source IP)
The question is simple but I think the answer might not be as I went through countless related topics with no concrete reply.
I wish to forward a port 1234 from x.x.x.x to y.y.y.y (both on internet ...
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How to restrict ssh port forwarding, without denying it?
Suppose I have created an account whose login shell is actually a script which does not permit an interactive login, and only allows a very limited, specific set of commands to be remotely executed.
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Forward Same Ports to Multiple IPs [closed]
I am trying to forward a series of ports to my computer. I have several computers in my network, and believe my router randomly assigns a port to each computer that connects to it. As I don't have a ...
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How can I get VMWare to use the same IP as the host?
I am running RHEL 6 on my Win-XP using VMware.
On VMware it has the local IP. I want it to be same as that of XP.
i.e. 123.237.115.199 on both. (This is dynamic IP but I want that the dynamic IP on ...
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Server only reachable over VPN
I have an Apache server running on a Raspberry P and it works just fine in the local network. And after forwarding port 80 and trying to connect using the public IP, Chrome says ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED....
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Forwarding ports after carrier grade NAT?
I cant forward ports anymore to my Xbox cause turns out my ISP recently refreshed IPs and all their IPs are public now and they say you can only forward ports if I request a static IP for a large ...
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Establishing an SSH connection between machines behind firewalls
I have two machines, A and C, each of which is behind a firewall so they can’t accept incoming SSH requests on port 22. I have a third machine, B, outside both firewalls and I wanted to SSH from A to ...
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How to port forward on Genexis Platinum 4410?
I have checked portforward.com but it does not have anything regarding this router.
I have searched the router console, but could not find anything other than inbound firewall rules(is that the same ...
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VNC with hops multiple machine
I want to acces a remote machine that in inside another machine. I can ssh to it but can't see any in VNC viewer.
That's the configuration.
external_ip port 3999 to internal_ip192 port 3999
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ssh port forwarding from remote location to computers on server's network
I've been hunting all over the inter webs and I cannot find a simple example of the form of port forwarding that I am looking for. Well, the truth is, I may have just simply not understood the jargon ...
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Why does the original site work, but port forwarding to the same site fails?
Ultimately I'd like to port forward an HTTP connection. Troubleshooting the command in the linked question, I tried this:
ssh -L localhost:8888:www.google.com:80 -N localhost
If I now go to ...
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Port forwarding my router
I am trying run a web server on my static IP address but when I open my IP address its opening my DSL router how can I assign that IP to my computer
any ideas?
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Incoming port blocking by ISP
First post here.
I've recently moved into an area where there's only one ISP. I had a file server running on my Windows based machine (FileRun) which was working seamlessly. I had configured a port ...
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Why do I see router and not my real IIS?
I am trying to access IIS through web but unable to do so. Basically I have a router (which functions as router and modem) that is given by ISP and I have another router connected to the router given ...
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Differences between ssh -L to -D
I'm trying to understand the differences between ssh -L to -D.
Is there anything else except for that -D is SOCKS only?
Thanks!
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Can I make SSH fail when a port forwarding fails?
If I do a remote port forward, a la -R 3690:localhost:3690 when a binding already exists on the port on the remote host, I get this warning:
Warning: remote port forwarding failed for listen port ...
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No idea what is listening on port 80 in OS X
I'm on OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.3, and I've freshly rebooted my Mac.
I want to start a service (like Apache on port 80), but there is already something going on with port 80:
telnet localhost 80
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Chrome ssh tunnel forwarding
I am first logging into an ssh server. Then I am trying to use Chrome for ssh tunnel forwarding. Is there a gui way of doing this? I can do this in Firefox's gui in like 10 seconds so I would think ...
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NAT vs. port forwarding [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is port forwarding and what is it used for?
What is the difference between NAT and port forwarding? Are they two different names for the same thing? What would be a short ...
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ssh through a router without port forwarding
I have a linux server, and I want to put it in a home network behind a router. I need to ssh to this server sometime from outside, but I don't want to set up port forwarding because I don't have ...
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Windows 10 - NAT - Port forwarding & IP masquerade
I'm looking for a way to get iptables functionality in windows 10. I enabled IP routing and I need to forward tcp data to another host (port 8080) and then forward his response while masquerading IP. ...