Whenever I've setup a SFTP server at home assuming the server has a NAT assigned IP address like 192.168. I've had to put a routing rule in the router to send Port 22 traffic to that PC.
Otherwise the traffic hits your external IP but nobody is there to listen to Port 22 traffic which is SFTP. If you're doing FTP then it would be Port 21 On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 3:07 AM Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed, setting up a VPN can play havoc with the routing table, for > example. I was hoping my reply would help to bring such issues to light. > > Roops > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019, 16:23 Paul Gilmartin, < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:51:07 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > > > > >It depends on where your VPN endpoint is. If you VPN to the site where > MVS > > >is running, then you should have an IP address on that subnet, as well > as > > >the public IP address you started with. Any traffic through that tunnel > is > > >encrypted as far as the endpoint. > > > > > I have used VPN provided by such a site where the required desktop client > > completely usurped the desktop's IP stack, preventing all the desktop's > > connection to the Internet other than through VPN and the site's firewall > > and proxy. This was to prevent any bridging of the site's intranet to > the > > Internet. It was particularly frustrating to users who couldn't use > their > > local network printers while connected to VPN. > > > > Of course while they connected to that VPN their public ("home PC") IP > > addresses were inaccessible from the Internet. > > > > -- gil > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
