AWS: OPNsense Configuration does not give response

[srinath]

Summary:

Create a public OPNsense firewall (free version)
Have a private EC2 box
Set Port forwarding from 40 to 22
This prints in the log public     date    source_ip:random_port   private_ip_of_box:22    tcp let out anything from firewall host itself

But does not give back any result when I do

ssh -i file.pem ec2-user@domain_pointing_to_opnsense -p 40

I also tried following https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=8783.0 but didn't give any change in the problem.