Gargoyle Forum

Hi,

Today, to disable bwmon_gargoyle, I had to enable ssh.

Then, when I had to connect from outside, the router answers...instead of the computer inside the network. Previously, gargoyles forward incoming connections on port 22 to this computer.

it was the first surprise. The second was when I stopped the ssh server on the router, I was thinking the forward setting will be re-activated correctly, but no. Now I can't connect to my network It is not a disaster because I'll be at home tonight

The question : why enabling the ssh server on gargoyle bypass the port forwarding rule ?

Well, you're assigning two services to the same port (port 22). That's a problem. When you do that, it's just a question of which the firewall implementation is going to prioritize, and in this case it's the router's ssh server. If you switched the port number being forwarded or the wan port open for your router's ssh server you wouldn't have the conflict and it would work fine.

hi, thanks.
My mistake, I didn't notice the default configuration set the ssh server accessible from the outside.

By default ssh isn't active on the external (WAN) port -- you have to explicitly turn it on by checking the appropriate box on the settings/router access page.

The ssh server is, by default, always active on the LAN on port 22.

thanks again. So I had to enable it without reading !!