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...se port 22 (ssh) on my home router, and I don't see any facilities in its GUI for doing that. I don't mind learning how to write an iptables rule for that, but I'd rather not have to fool around with commandline stuff on the router, especially things that require extra steps to make it peresist across boots. So, I'm trying this (please tell me if it makes sense to do it this way): I've set up a port forwarding rule on the router that forwards incoming port 22 to port 9 on the LAN side of the router. As I understand it, port 9 is a /dev/null equivalent, and it seems to block the p...