Van Tech Corner ： OpenWRT – Firewall – Port Forwarding and Traffic Rules

In video video, we use OpenWRT Firewall to configure Port Forwarding and Traffic Rules. We will discuss the basic concept of Firerwall, such as zones, actions and network interfaces. As a demonstration, we will open a for a port for the router (configure port forward from WAN to LAN) and allow SSH access to the OpenWRT router via port 22 by creating a traffic rule.

Video timeframe:
00:00 – OpenWRT Firewall Zones Introduction
01:35 – Differences between Port Forward and Traffic Rules
02:30 – Port forwarding on OpenWRT – Open port 80 for HTTP
03:10 – Static Lease / Reserved IP with DHCP server
06:00 – Configure Port Forward in LuCI
08:09 – Check if a port is Open or Closed
09:00 – OpenWRT Traffic Rules
09:10 – Example – Enable SSH access to the OpenWRT router from Internet
11:45 – Tip about Soure and Destination port
13:18 – Warning and Final words

More information about OpenWRT Firewall: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/start

Thank for watching and see you in the next video!

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