[User] Setting up port forwarding

Jacob S Hoffman-Andrews jsha at eff.org
Tue Oct 7 09:27:32 PDT 2014


Wes, to answer your question: You'll also want to edit
/etc/firewall.user and add a FORWARD rule that forwards traffic from
the ORPort and DirPort to the machine you are using as a relay. And
of course make sure your machine has a static IP.

On 10/07/2014 11:54 AM, Jacob S Hoffman-Andrews wrote:
> The default firewall rules are very conservative and prevent this.
> To open up traffic between the networks, you'll want to modify
> /etc/firewall.user and/or /etc/config/firewall.
> 
> I think it probably makes sense to change the defaults to allow
> traffic between wired Ethernet and private WiFi, since they are both
> notionally part of the 'private' part of the network. Pull requests
> welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> Jacob
> 
> On 10/02/2014 03:07 PM, Wes Frazier wrote:
>> I would also be curious to know to, how to open UDP ports between the
>> private wireless network and the ethernet network. (From the command
>> line on the router or otherwise.) Right now a lot of UDP traffic does
>> not seem to pass through. For example upnp autodiscovery does not seem
>> to work across the wireless/ethernet divide. However it works fine if
>> both devices are communicating over ethernet.
>>
>> - Wes
>>
>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 17:43:25 -0700
>>> From: Matt Kraai <kraai at ftbfs.org>
>>> To: user at openwireless.org
>>> Subject: [User] Setting up port forwarding
>>> Message-ID: <20141002004325.GD20961 at ftbfs.org>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to run a Tor relay behind my openwireless.org router.  How do
>>> I configure port forwarding so that the relay's ORPort and DirPort are
>>> reachable?
>>>
>>
>>
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