Routing all traffic on a port to an external IP

mqduck · 06-12-2015, 09:04 PM

I'd like to be able to host a game on a Windows computer, which is behind a router I don't have control over, but allow people to connect to connect to it through a Linux server, which I do control. Right now I can route all network traffic on the Windows computer through a VPN connection with the server, but the game I'm hosting doesn't seem to be visible to the outside world. Is there a way to tell OpenVPN (or something else) to route all incoming traffic on a specific port to my Windows computer?

Ser Olmy · 06-13-2015, 03:09 PM

There probably is, but if you only need one or two specific TCP and/or UDP ports, have you considered SSH tunneling?

mqduck · 06-14-2015, 01:08 AM

Wouldn't that require me setting up a forward for the IP of each player that wants to connect to the server?

Ser Olmy · 06-14-2015, 02:33 PM

No, remote SSH port forwarding simply forwards one or more specified ports on the remote system to (a) port(s) on the client side.