Description Of Port Forwarding Settings - EE Brightbox User Manual

Description of Port Forwarding settings

The table below contains a description of the settings on the Port Forwarding page:
Section
Number
LAN IP address
Protocol Type
LAN Port
Description
This field is the index for the port forwarding entry.
You can configure up to 20 port forwarding rules on
the router.
This field is used to configure the LAN IP of the
device on your local network you wish to forward
the particular traffic type to.
It is recommended that you reserve an IP address on
the DHCP admin page for a particular device, as the
port forwarding rule will not work if the LAN IP
address configured in this page doesn't match that
of the device.
This dropdown is used to configure the traffic
protocol type that will be forwarded to your local
device.
Select 'TCP' for Transmission Control Protocol traffic
forwarding.
Select 'UDP' for User Datagram Protocol traffic
forwarding.
Select 'TCP&UDP' to allow forwarding of both traffic
types. Select this option if you are unsure which
type to use.
This field is used to configure the internal port that
traffic will be forwarded to on the LAN IP address for
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