Cheesehead
September 15th, 2008, 11:23 PM
I'm looking for good advice on the iptables command to forward (and a second command to later cancel) port 5500 on my router to my Xubuntu box.
Background - My mom has a VNC server, and I have a client. I want her to initiate a reverse-VNC connection, so I need only open my router's port 5500 and forward to to my machine. I can SSH into my router, so I can script it. The router runs HyperWRT v17 (linux), and does use iptables. (I can see'em, I just not smart enough to script'em)
Project - I'm building a script that will find my local and internet IP addresses, SSH to the router and forward port 5500, set my vnc client to listen for the inbound connection, and create a job to watch for the end of the vnc session and cancel the port forward.
Problem - I have it all except the iptable commands for forward/cancel. Is there more convenient method? Good iptable advice welcome...
Background - My mom has a VNC server, and I have a client. I want her to initiate a reverse-VNC connection, so I need only open my router's port 5500 and forward to to my machine. I can SSH into my router, so I can script it. The router runs HyperWRT v17 (linux), and does use iptables. (I can see'em, I just not smart enough to script'em)
Project - I'm building a script that will find my local and internet IP addresses, SSH to the router and forward port 5500, set my vnc client to listen for the inbound connection, and create a job to watch for the end of the vnc session and cancel the port forward.
Problem - I have it all except the iptable commands for forward/cancel. Is there more convenient method? Good iptable advice welcome...