Before I switched to Astaro, I used a piece of crap Linksys router. I had port 8080 forwarded to a dedicated SSH box using Cygwin for Windows. I used this to establish a SSH tunnel using both Putty and FireFox (stand-alone). The sole intention for this is to allow me and 3-4 other users the ability to surf the internet privately. I could carry a thumb drive around and connect anytime/anywhere without installing drivers. I could also use port forwarding to RDP/VNC to other machines on the network (thru the tunnel).
I don’t want to use a VPN solution. I only want browser traffic (or a few select forwarded ports) to use the localhost tunnel. I want ALL other traffic to work like normal.
I also want to state that will never use the built-in SSH server to administer Astaro. Ok, I'm guessing I have two different ways I figure it could be setup:
First and preferred, I could reconfigure the built-in SSH server and configure it to use port 8080 and setup the 5 users that need to connect via the tunnel.
Second, I could keep the built-in SSH server disabled and just forward port 8080 to my extra SSH box.
Here is where I'm stuck, I have tried the second method without success. I tried could never get connected, and all my traffic was getting blocked or filtered out. I even used an off the wall port so there wouldn’t be any conflicts with port 8080. I have setup the port forwarding and packet filter rules to allow all traffic. Still nothing.
I’m not sure what else to try. Actually, I would like to use Astaro as my SSH server, just not sure what steps I use to get it there. Also, would there be any security risks using Astaro opposed to forwarding to an internal box.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
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