From: "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ssh tunnels and iptables
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 19:54:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170129195437.2533b527@playground> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGU6BD=-W-YwLXbYgNgCOwd-nO1RGK=0=GOEUauK00u+rEiQDQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 06:03:08 +0530
deva seetharam <deva.seetharam@gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry, it does not make sense because it is a reverse tunnel. that is,
> the server that is running the firewall gets the connection requests
> on that port (2222). i see that the port opens (can see it using nmap)
> up as soon as the tunnel is up. however, IPTABLES does not have that
> port open. that is what is confusing.
That's because the 'reverse' tunnel flows across the encrypted SSH connection. The server's firewall never sees the traffic; it only sees packets flowing across the existing connection.
When a program on the server connects to localhost:2222 (or to remotehost.com:2222), SSH itself listens on that socket and communicates with the SSH instance running on the laptop to connect to the host:port specified in the '-R' option. The traffic for that connection flows across (is tunneled through) the encrypted SSH connection.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-30 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-29 15:27 ssh tunnels and iptables deva seetharam
2017-01-29 17:05 ` Mark Coetser
2017-01-30 0:33 ` deva seetharam
2017-01-30 0:54 ` Neal P. Murphy [this message]
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