Inbound Rules (Port Forwarding) - NETGEAR FVX538 - ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 Router Reference Manual

• Quality of service (QoS) priorities—Each service at its own native priority that impacts its
quality of performance and tolerance for jitter or delays. You can change this QoS priority if
desired to change the traffic mix through the system.

Inbound Rules (Port Forwarding)

Because the FVX538 uses Network Address Translation (NAT), your network presents only one
IP address to the Internet and outside users cannot directly address any of your local computers.
However, by defining an inbound rule you can make a local server (for example, a web server or
game server) visible and available to the Internet. The rule tells the firewall to direct inbound
traffic for a particular service to one local server based on the destination port number. This is also
known as port forwarding.
Figure 6-2: Add Inbound Service Rules screen
Note: See "Port Triggering" on page 6-28
inbound traffic that would otherwise be blocked by the firewall.
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for yet another way to allow certain types of
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