Port Forwarding for Remote Assistance

If you want to have someone help you configure or troubleshoot your Asterisk server you often need to give them ssh access.

You can simply use your router's Port Range Forwarding feature to forward port number 22 (the default ssh port) to the internal address of your Asterisk server. However this not generally recommended because the bad guys on the Internet are continually attacking every known IP address on port 22 in an attempt to break in.

What is preferred is to use the router's Port Forwarding feature to take an non-standard IP port and route it to port 22 on the Asterisk server. Below is an example of such a configuration. Note that the path is disabled. Even with using the non-standard port, general practice is to only enable this route as needed.