TP-Link TL-R480T+ manual Port Triggering, Status

Internal Server IP: Enter the IP address of the specified internal server for the entry. All the requests from the Internet to the specified LAN port will be redirected to this host.

Status: Activate or inactivate the entry.

Note:

●The External port and Internal Port should be set in the range of 1-65535.

●The external ports of different entries should be different, whereas the internal ports can be the same.

List of Rules

In this table, you can view the information of the entries and edit them by the Action buttons.

The first entry in Figure 4-27indicates: This is a Virtual Server entry named host, all the TCP data packets from the Internet to port 65534-65535 of the router will be redirected to the port 65534-65535 of the LAN host with IP address of 192.168.0.103, and the data packets are transmitted from WAN1 port. This entry is activated.

4.5.1.5Port Triggering

Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, video conferencing, Internet calling, P2P download and so on. Port Triggering is used for those applications requiring multiple connections.

When an application initiates a connection to the trigger port, all the ports corresponding to the incoming port will open for follow-up connections.

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