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content/u/blog/nftables-magic-redirect-all-ports-to-one-port/contents.lr

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-title: Firewall magic with nftables: how to redirect all ports to one port
+title: How to redirect all ports to one port with nftables
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 pub_date: 2019-11-07
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@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ outgoing traffic and thus prevent you to connect to where you want to
 connect to.
 Here at [ungleich](https://ungleich.ch) we are travelling quite a lot,
 but we always want to be able to access the servers of
-[Data Center Light](https://datacenterlight.ch), so that we can
-maintain them from everywhere in the world, so we needed a way to
+[Data Center Light](https://datacenterlight.ch).
+
+To be able to do so from anywhere in the world, we needed to
 ensure that we have some way of connecting to them, even if the
-network disallows traffic to the ssh port (tcp/22).
+network filters traffic to the ssh port (tcp/22).
+
+While our main motivation was to enable ssh, the example below can be
+adjusted to any service, including http, https, smtp, ...
 
 ## A solution based on nftables