Can the Xamarin Mac Agent's port be configured? (to something other than port 22)

Question

I'm configuring my network's firewall to permit connecting to my Mac build server when I'm away from my house. I would like to set up port forwarding to send traffic to the Mac via an alternative to port 22.

Can the Xamarin Mac Agent be configured to listen on a port other than 22? Does Visual Studio permit connecting to the Mac Agent on a port other than 22?

Answer 1

It seems that Zagaeski’s solution stopped working on new VS/Xamarin versions... I am using a different approach here; on my Windows machine, I have created a port forwarding rule, like this:

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=22 listenaddress=127.0.0.1 connectport=REMOTE_PORT connectaddress=REMOTE_HOST_OR_IP_ADDRESS

In my case, REMOTE_PORT is 17352 and REMOTE_HOST_OR_IP_ADDRESS is the hostname (DNS name or IP Address) of the remote network I am connecting to.

This way I am able to connect my Visual Studio / Xamarim to the host “127.0.0.1”, on port 22 (internally redirected to my remote host/port):

Hope it helps.