Considerations For Inbound Rules - NETGEAR DGN2200v1 User Manual

Log. You can select whether to log the traffic:
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Never. No log entries are made for this service.
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Always. Any traffic for this service type is logged.
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Match. Traffic of this type that matches the settings and action are logged.
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Not match. Traffic of this type that does not match the settings and action are logged.
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Inbound Rule Example: Allowing Video Conferencing
Create an inbound rule to allow incoming video conferencing to be initiated from a restricted
range of outside IP addresses, such as from a branch office. In the following figure,
CU-SeeMe connections are allowed from a specified range of external IP addresses only. In
this case, incoming CU-SeeMe requests that do not match the allowed settings are logged.
Figure 11. Inbound video conferencing

Considerations for Inbound Rules

If your external IP address is assigned dynamically by your ISP, the IP address might
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change periodically as the DHCP lease expires. Consider using the Dynamic DNS screen
described in
Dynamic DNS
network.
If the IP address of the local server computer is assigned by DHCP, it might change when
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the computer is rebooted. To avoid this, use the Reserved IP address feature in the LAN
IP Setup screen to keep the computer's IP address constant.
Local computers must access the local server using the computer's local LAN address
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(192.168.0.11 in the example shown in
by local computers to access the server using the external WAN IP address fail.
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Figure 11, Inbound video
conferencing). Attempts