Hello, I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all manner of search terms that I can think of with variations of what I put in the subject line.
Basically, for a long time it worked very well to just open an SSH tunneling command to connect to the network at my dad's house to do maintenance on the computers/networking equipment there. All was good until he either changed providers or just had problems with his equipment. Either way, he got a new modem, and instead of replacing his existing all-in-one modem and router, he and/or the tech decided it would be safer to just add the new modem upstream of the existing one, and just have two NAT translations happening. This broke my port forwarding that I had working, so I had to change how I got access. I don't know if he even has access to the settings in the new modem - it's a Comcast thing, and he's not sure, and I think he's also a little uneasy about the idea of changing anything, since it's now working well and he went for a while with having things be really flaky. So to keep his stress level low, the first time afterwards that I went out there I got onto the linux server that I have running there and set up a persistent reverse SSH tunnel using autossh. It works great, and all I have to do from my local server machine is run 'ssh -p 2222 localhost' and I get connected and everything is good. However, to do a fix for a current problem, I need to get http access to a server running on that same machine. All of the logs make it look like it's running fine, but they're reporting that something isn't right. Before, I could set up a tunnel and use a proxy command to then connect from a local machine to a port on the server at my dad's house and do whatever amount of troubleshooting I needed. With the new reverse tunnel set up, it doesn't seem to be accepting the proxy traffic, and I have no idea why. Dad's server Dad's old modem/router --- Dad's new modem --- internet ---- my modem/router --- my server --- my laptop So I want to use firefox on my laptop to view content served from my dad's server, but the only possible connection is currently through a reverse ssh tunnel set up on my server. It seems like this must be a somewhat basic thing to do, as all I want is for traffic sent to a chosen port on my server to be rerouted through the existing SSH tunnel and then appear to originate on my dad's private network so that it can then query the http server and send the response back through the tunnel. But maybe I'm trying to do this the hard way and there's a simpler solution? Maybe I just don't know the right search terms to use? I could be calling these things the wrong names. It's a bit of a drive to get out there in person, and I'd like to get this running before the next time that I'm planning to be there anyway, if possible. Thanks! Erik _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
