Local binding port for SSH client?

Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabregas at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 04:37:17 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 03 September 2008 11:59:05 pm Bill Davidsen wrote:
> If you want to learn a little about iptables you can just do SNAT to
> control the IP and port.
>    iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d 1.2.3.4 --dport ssh \
>    -j SNAT --to-source 4.3.2.1:24702
>
> That is, if the destination IP is 1.2.3.4 and the destination port is
> ssh (22), change the source IP to 4.3.2.1 port 24702
>
> Requires static IP.

Hi Bill,

That's interesting. I had no idea I could do that with iptables.  I use it for 
incoming traffic (on my machine) but never thought about makign those 
manipulation with outbound traffic of mine.

Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Jorge




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