Port Forwarding - Edimax Broadband Router User Manual

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Port Forwarding

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2.6.1 Port Forwarding
The Port Forwarding allows you to re-direct a particular range of service port numbers (from the Internet/WAN Ports) to a
particular LAN IP address. It helps you to host some servers behind the router NAT firewall.
You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service
servers/clients in your LAN. The Port Forwarding allows you to re-direct a particular range
of service port numbers (from the Internet/WAN Ports) to a particular LAN IP address.
You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service
servers/clients in your LAN. The Virtual Server allows you to re-direct a particular service
port number (from the Internet/WAN Port) to a particular LAN IP address and its service
port number.
Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video
conferencing, Internet telephony and others. In this section you can configure the router to
support these types of applications.
It allows to Enable or Disable UPnP feature here. After you enable the UPnP feature, all
client systems that support UPnP, like Windows XP, can discover this router automatically
and access the Internet through this router without any configuration. The NAT Traversal
function provided by UPnP can let applications that support UPnP smoothly connect to
Internet sites without any incompatibility problem due to the NAPT port translation.
You can select special applications that need "Application Layer Gateway" to support here.
You can disable NAT function and setup the routing rules manually.
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