<![CDATA[Allow incoming ports with VPN]]>

<![CDATA[Allow incoming ports with VPN]]>Quick question… I have a cable modem that goes into the pfsense router and multiple internal subnets. I have one subnet for machines that I want to use an openvpn client (PIA).

If I wanted to allow incoming SSH on the cable modem IP (not going through the VPN), do I just create the rules like I normally would and it all works? I hope that kind of makes sense.... I thought I tried it before and it seemed like it opened ssh on the VPN side but not the cable modem side.

Thanks!

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/113912/allow-incoming-ports-with-vpnRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 10:20:37 GMTSat, 01 Apr 2017 20:14:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Allow incoming ports with VPN on Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:51:14 GMT]]>If you allow it inbound on the WAN to the firewall itself (or a port forward) it will work independently from the VPN.

That said, unless you have SSH access restricted to key-based authentication only, you should not expose SSH to the Internet from any type of connection.

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