[CentOS] OT: closing a port on home router

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Tue Sep 22 19:11:53 UTC 2015


On 9/12/2015 9:44 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
>
> 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.

If you have not set up forwarding for port 22 on the router, it is 
already closed.  You do not need to do anything.

If you want to verify this, just try to connect to port 22 from outside 
your network and see what happens.

-- 
Bowie



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