[CentOS] OT: closing a port on home router

[Fred Smith]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 08:23:14PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 04:26:09PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> > On 9/12/2015 4:16 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> > >I'm wanting to close port 22 (ssh) on my home router, and I don't see any
> > >facilities in its GUI for doing that.
> > 
> > inbound ports that aren't forwarded are closed by default on most
> > any/all NAT routers, unless the router itself is listening to said
> > port.
> 
> Isn't there any sort of portforwarding thing?  Such as forward port 2222 (I

yes, there is port forwarding, of course. I'm forwarding a different
port to 22 on my desktop, and want to close 22 on the router so it won't
also allow access to 22 on my desktop.

I know,... "security through obscurity is no security at all". But I
figure it doesn't hurt to try.

> wouldn't use that one, it's too common, but as an example) to 192.168.1.5,
> and then have 192.168.1.5 listen on port 2222?  Then have a firewall rule
> to allow access on that port and edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to listen on
> 2222 instead of 22.

It is as I said above, I don't want to have to write firewall rules
for it because then I need to go to the trouble to make sure my custom
rule(s) get  reloaded at every reboot.

> 
> Looking at
> http://nextgendigitalhome.com/1829/home-network/scalable-gateway/the-asus-rt-n16-router-firmware-part-4-advanced-wan-settings/
> it seems as if it would allow this and it's described in the section WAN
> Virtual Server/Port Fowarding.

Ah, i've never seen that resource, thanks! I'll go peruse it and see
what I find.

thanks!

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