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Eric Pruitt
Asked: 2012-04-14 14:37:18 +0800 CST

Selecting Interface for SSH Port Forwarding

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I have a server that we'll call hub-server.tld with three IP addresses 100.200.130.121, 100.200.130.122, and 100.200.130.123. I have three different machines that are behind a firewall, but I want to use SSH to port forward one machine to each IP address. For example: machine-one should listen for SSH on port 22 on 100.200.130.121, while machine-two should do the same on 100.200.130.122, and so on for different services on ports that may be the same across all of the machines.

The SSH man page has -R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport listed I have gateway ports enabled, but when using -R with a specific IP address, server still listens on the port across all interfaces:

machine-one:

# ssh -NR 100.200.130.121:22:localhost:22 [email protected]

hub-server.tld (Listens for SSH on port 2222):

# netstat -tan | grep LISTEN
tcp        0      0 100.200.130.121:2222        0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*                        LISTEN

Is there a way to make SSH forward only connections on a specific IP address to machine-one so I can listen to port 22 on the other IP addresses at the same time, or will I have to do something with iptables? Here are all the lines in my ssh config that are not comments / defaults:

Port 2222
Protocol 2
SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
PasswordAuthentication yes
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
GSSAPIAuthentication no
GSSAPICleanupCredentials no
UsePAM yes
AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL
AllowTcpForwarding yes
GatewayPorts yes
X11Forwarding yes
ClientAliveInterval 30
ClientAliveCountMax 1000000
UseDNS no
Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server
ssh port forwarding

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    From sshd_config(5):

    GatewayPorts

      Specifies whether remote hosts are allowed to connect to ports forwarded 
  for the client.  By default, sshd(8) binds remote port forwardings to the
  loopback address. This prevents other remote hosts from connecting to 
  forwarded ports.  GatewayPorts can be used to specify that sshd should 
  allow remote port forwardings to bind to non-loopback addresses, thus 
  allowing other hosts to connect.  The argument may be “no” to force remote 
  port forwardings to be available to the local host only, “yes” to force 
  remote port forwardings to bind to the wildcard address, or 
  “clientspecified” to allow the client to select the address to which the 
  forwarding is bound.  The default is “no”.

    You want to set this to clientspecified instead of yes.

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