Port Triggers - THOMSON TWG850-4 User Manual

Chapter 2: WEB Configuration

6. Port Triggers

Some Internet activities, such as interactive gaming, require that a PC on the WAN side of your gateway
be able to originate connections during the game with your game playing PC on the LAN side. You could
use the Advanced-Forwarding web page to construct a forwarding rule during the game, and then remove
it afterwards (to restore full protection to your LAN PC) to facilitate this. Port triggering is an elegant
mechanism that does this work for you, each time you play the game.
Port Triggering works as follows. Imagine you want to play a particular game with PCs somewhere on the
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