On Sunday 18 March 2007 15:56, Gavin Carr wrote:
> > > DNAT:info       net     loc:10.0.50.50:22  tcp     2222
> >
> > I've run into this before as well, and had all kinds of grief until I
> > figured it out.  For some reason, the SSH protocol does not like its port
> > changed. So, if you have 2222 open on the firewall, then have SSH listen
> > on 2222 (as well as 22, if you want) on your machine, and DNAT to 2222.
>
> Not true, at least on my versions of ssh on linux. I routinely dnat ssh
> from all kinds of ports through to port 22, and it works just fine. You
> must have been seeing some other problem (or it's specific to a particular
> ssh or os or something?)

Interesting. It might have been version specific, but somewhere back in the 
recesses of my mind, it seems I read something to that effect, and I know 
when I DNAT'ed to the same port (2022 -> 2022) all my sporadic connectivity 
problems went away.  I guess I should have said YMMV. :)

j

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