{"id":853,"date":"2017-11-13T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2018-09-05T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:38:14","slug":"host-ssh-server-behind-linksys-ea7500-max-stream-ac1900-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techcoil.com\/blog\/host-ssh-server-behind-linksys-ea7500-max-stream-ac1900-router\/","title":{"rendered":"How to host a SSH server behind Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I had set up WordPress on Raspberry Pi 3<\/a> and configured my Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to enable outside access to the web server<\/a>, I found that there were times that I needed to SSH into the Raspbian operating system to try things out when I was away from home. <\/p>\n

To ensure I have a quick reference on hosting a SSH server behind Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router<\/a>, if I needed to, I documented the steps to do so in this blog.<\/p>\n

Logging into the admin portal of Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router<\/h2>\n

To begin with configuring the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to allow access to a SSH server, you will need to access the admin portal. The admin portal of the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router is accessible via http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/a>. Once you enter http:\/\/192.168.1.1\/<\/a> in the location bar of your router, you will be shown the login screen:<\/p>\n

\"Linksys<\/p>\n

If you had not setup a password for accessing the admin portal, the default password for accessing the admin portal of the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router is admin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After logging in, you will see the following screen:<\/p>\n

\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Reserving a private IP address for your SSH server<\/h2>\n

It would be inconvenient if the router gives our SSH server a different private IP address every time we restart our SSH server. To ensure that the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router reserves a private IP address for our SSH server, we can perform the following steps:<\/p>\n

Click on Connectivity<\/strong> on the panel to the left to get into the Connectivity<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Click on Local Network<\/strong> tab on the top to get into the Local Network<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Click on the DHCP Reservations<\/strong> button to get into the DHCP Reservations<\/strong> screen:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Select the SSH server entry and click on the Add DHCP Reservation<\/strong> button to get the router to reserve that private IP address for the SSH server:
\n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

Forwarding port 22 to your SSH server<\/h2>\n

The last thing to do is to get your Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. reserve the standard port for SSH for our SSH server.<\/li>\n
  2. forward any traffic that the router receives at port 22 to our SSH server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is known as port forwarding.<\/p>\n

    To configure our Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to perform port forwarding for port 22, we can perform the following steps:<\/p>\n

    Click on Security<\/strong> on the panel to the left to get into the Security<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Apps and Gaming<\/strong> tab at the top to get into the Apps and Gaming<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> link to get into the Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> screen:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Click on Add a new Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> button, key in the entry to map port 22 of the public IP address (External Port) to port 22 (Internal Port) of the SSH server:
    \n\"Linksys
    \nClick on the Save<\/strong> link beside the entry to persist the record.<\/p>\n

    Once you are done, the Single Port Forwarding<\/strong> screen should look like the following:
    \n\"Linksys<\/p>\n

    Finally, click on the Apply<\/strong> button and then the Ok<\/strong> button to get the Linksys EA7500 Max-Stream AC1900 router to remember the port forwarding configurations.<\/p>\n\n