[Shorewall-users] Configuration for simple ssh forwarding

Ferguson, Alex
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:22:41 -0000

Hello,

I am having difficulties configuring a firewall on a vnc server. Shorewall
(1.3.14) has been configured as described in the single interface example,
with an additional rule to permit ssh connections. I can ssh into the box
normally, but the vnc server doesn''t seem to respond when I try to
forward
vnc through ssh (ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). I believe the
problem lies in my shorewall configuration and not in sshd, since everything
works as expected when I change Shorewall''s default net->fw policy
to
accept.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

- Alex