ROS2-Foxy: Dynamic Port Forwarding for 3 Devices in 2 Networks

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My current Network looks like the following: Network Architecture

and all devices run Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and ROS2 Foxy. There exist 2 Networks red (Raspberry's wlan0) and green (Raspberry's eth0). Only the Raspberry is member of both. According to this pattern, i.e. the used ports are not fixed. Let us assume we only use Domain 1, i.e. the pattern is:

• Port 7650 and 7651 for multicast
• Port pairs (7660|7661), (7662|7663) ... (7898|7899) are used for any new node

What I have so far is on Raspberry's Crontab (runs on Boot) to be able to SSH Desktop -> Jetson:

#!/bin/bash

# Based on  https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37554/local-network-between-two-rpis

# First we disable autoconfigured network on the Pi
# based on https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/37594/how-can-i-disable-autoconfigured-networking-on-raspbian    
sudo ip link set eth0 up
sudo ip addr add 10.66.66.1/24 dev eth0
sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE
sudo iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -o wlan0 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -I FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT


# Forward Port 9001 from Raspberry to Jetson port 22
# to ssh onto the Jetson, now use:
# ssh jetson@RaspberryIP -p 9001
echo '1' | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/wlan0/forwarding
echo '1' | sudo tee /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/forwarding

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i wlan0 --dport 9001 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.66.66.2:22
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d 10.66.66.2 --dport 22 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

How would I update the script to forward (Jetson/Raspberry)-green network ports 7650 and 7651 for multicast into the (Desktop/Raspberry)-red network ports 7650 and 7651? How would I update the script to safely forward the used ports (Jetson/Raspberry)-green network to (Desktop/Raspberry)-red network?

I think I might be ok (for not too many nodes to avoid collision) to forward green->red:

• (7650|7651) -> (7650|7651)
• (7660|7661) -> (7898|7899)
• (7662|7663) -> (7896|7897)
• ...

which would essentially half my available nodes in one domain. But this is definitely the end of my network voodoo. Help would be greatly appreciated.