Port Triggering To Open Incoming Ports - NETGEAR MBR1515 User Manual

Destination port number. 5678, which is the browser session that made the initial
request.
When you finish your browser session, your router eventually detects a period of inactivity in
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the communications. Your router then removes the session information from its session
table, and incoming traffic is no longer accepted on port number 33333.

Port Triggering to Open Incoming Ports

In the preceding example, requests are sent to a remote computer by your router from a
particular service port number, and replies from the remote computer to your router are
directed to that port number. If the remote server sends a reply to a different port number,
your router does not recognize it and discards it. However, some application servers (such as
FTP and IRC servers) send replies to multiple port numbers. Using the port triggering
function of your router, you can tell the router to open more incoming ports when a particular
outgoing port originates a session.
An example is Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Your computer connects to an IRC server at
destination port 6667. The IRC server not only responds to your originating source port, but
also sends an "identify" message to your computer on port 113. Using port triggering, you can
tell the router, "When you initiate a session with destination port 6667, you have to also allow
incoming traffic on port 113 to reach the originating computer." Using steps similar to the
preceding example, the following sequence shows the effects of the port triggering rule you
have defined:
1. You open an IRC client program to start a chat session on your computer.
2. Your IRC client composes a request message to an IRC server using a destination port
number of 6667, the standard port number for an IRC server process. Your computer then
sends this request message to your router.
3. Your router creates an entry in its internal session table describing this communication
session between your computer and the IRC server. Your router stores the original
information, performs Network Address Translation (NAT) on the source address and port,
and sends this request message through the Internet to the IRC server.
4. Noting your port triggering rule and having observed the destination port number of 6667,
your router creates an additional session entry to send any incoming port 113 traffic to your
computer.
5. The IRC server sends a return message to your router using the NAT-assigned source port
(as in the previous example, say port 33333) as the destination port. The IRC server also
sends an "identify" message to your router with destination port 113.
6. Upon receiving the incoming message to destination port 33333, your router checks its
session table to determine whether an active session for port number 33333 exists. Finding
an active session, the router restores the original address information replaced by NAT and
sends this reply message to your computer.
7. Upon receiving the incoming message to destination port 113, your router checks its session
table and learns that an active session for port 113 exists and is associated with your
computer. The router replaces the message's destination IP address with your computer's
IP address and forwards the message to your computer.
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