You are here

Changing Tunneling Port to other than Port 5525

5 posts / 0 new
Last post
W4NMH
W4NMH's picture
Changing Tunneling Port to other than Port 5525

I have lost my Tunneling capability, I can see but can't connect to anything.

A Port Scan shows my Home Network has recently had Port 5525 Blocked from the ISP.

What are the alternatives so we can continue testing?

Thank You,

Rich W4NMH

K5DLQ
K5DLQ's picture
Are you running the AREDN 3

Are you running the AREDN 3.15.1.0beta2?

W4NMH
W4NMH's picture
Are you running the AREDN 3.15.1.0beta2?

Are you running the AREDN 3.15.1.0beta2? YES

K5DLQ
K5DLQ's picture
ok.  this is unsupported at

ok.  this is unsupported and untested, but, try this:  (only on AREDN 3.15.1.0 based nodes)

(If it messes up things on your node, just hold the reset button for 15 secs to get a "fresh installed pre-configuration state" node.)

ON THE SERVER NODE:

  1. ssh to your server node
  2. edit /etc/config.mesh/firewall
  3. locate the config rule with option dest_port 5525
  4. change to 5526 (as an example) and save
  5. edit /etc/config.mesh/vtun
  6. under the config options section at the top, add option port 5526 and save
  7. go into the setup page of the node and click SAVE CHANGES
  8. go into the Tunnel Server page of the node and click SAVE CHANGES
  9. reboot

ON YOUR CLIENT NODE:

  1. ssh to your client node
  2. edit /etc/config.mesh/vtun
  3. under the config options section at the top, add option port 5526 and save
  4. go into the setup page of the node and click SAVE CHANGES
  5. go into the Tunnel Client page of the node and click SAVE CHANGES
  6. reboot

Let me know if that works for you.

KG6JEI
While it is possible your ISP

While it is possible your ISP is blocking the port, this would not be the most likely scenario if you are in the US.  The port is uncommon and not used (to my knowledge) by any large scale software that ISP's would want to use the (limited) ACL restrictions on.

A more likely scenario is that your home router NAT translation to the mesh node WAN IP is no longer  valid, such as the mesh node IP has changed and the NAT forward from the router is not being sent to the mesh node.  I would suggest double checking the translation first.

Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer