Configure Port Triggering - NETGEAR ProSafe FVS318N Reference Manual

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2. Click the Stop button. Wait until the Poll Interval field becomes available.
3. Enter new poll interval in seconds.
4. Click the Set Interval button. Wait for the confirmation that the operation has succeeded
before you close the window.

Configure Port Triggering

Port triggering allows some applications running on a LAN network to be available to external
applications that would otherwise be partially blocked by the firewall. Using the port-triggering
feature requires that you know the port numbers used by the application.
Note: Port triggering is supported for IPv4 devices only.
Once configured, port triggering operates as follows:
1. A computer makes an outgoing connection using a port number that is defined in the
Port Triggering Rules table.
2. The wireless VPN firewall records this connection, opens the additional incoming port or
ports that are associated with the rule in the port triggering table, and associates them with
the computer.
3. The remote system receives the computer's request and responds using the incoming port
or ports that are associated with the rule in the port triggering table on the wireless VPN
firewall.
4. The wireless VPN firewall matches the response to the previous request and forwards the
response to the computer.
Without port triggering, the response from the external application would be treated as a new
connection request rather than a response to a request from the LAN network. As such, it
would be handled in accordance with the inbound port-forwarding rules, and most likely
would be blocked.
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