DSL-500G ADSL Router User’s Guide
Enter information appropriate to the NAT flavor. The information in the various menus is summarized in the table below.
| The Rule ID determines the order in which rules are invoked (the lowest | |
| numbered rule is invoked first, and so on). In some cases, two or more rules | |
| may be defined to act on the same set of IP addresses. Be sure to assign the | |
Rule ID | Rule ID so that the higher priority rules are invoked before | |
It is recommended that you select rule IDs as multiples of 5 or 10 so that, in the | ||
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| future, you can insert a rule between two existing rules. | |
| Once a data packet matches a rule, the data is acted upon according to that | |
| rule and is not subjected to | |
| Typically, NAT rules are used for communication between your LAN and the | |
IF Name | Internet. Because the device uses the WAN interface (which may be named | |
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| Name selection. | |
| This selection specifies which type of Internet communication will be subject to | |
Protocol | this translation rule. You can select ALL if the rule applies to all data. Or, select | |
TCP, UDP, ICMP, or a number from | ||
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| protocol number. | |
| Type the starting IP of the range of private address you want to be | |
Local Address | translated. You can specify that data from all LAN addresses should be | |
translated by typing 0 (zero) in each From field and 255 in each To field. Or, | ||
From | ||
type the same address in both fields if the rule only applies to one LAN | ||
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| computer. | |
Local Address To | Type the ending IP of the range of private address you want to be translated. | |
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Global Address | Type the public IP address assigned to you by your ISP. | |
From | ||
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| If you have multiple WAN interfaces, in both the Global Address From and | |
| Global Address To fields, type the IP address of the interface to which this rule | |
Global Address To | applies. This rule will not be enforced for data that arrives on other PPP | |
interfaces. | ||
| If you have multiple WAN interfaces and want the rule to be enforced on a | |
| range of them, type the starting and ending IP addresses of the range. You can | |
| specify a single value by entering that value in both the From and To fields. | |
Destination | Specify a range of destination addresses if you want this rule to apply only to | |
outbound traffic to addresses in that range. | ||
Address (or | ||
If you enter only the network ID portion of the destination address, then the rule | ||
addresses)* | ||
will apply to outbound traffic to all computers on network. You can specify a | ||
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| single value by entering that value in both the From and To fields. | |
| Specify a range of destination ports if you want this rule to apply to any | |
| outbound traffic to the types of servers identified by that port number. | |
| For example, if you do not specify a destination address, but specify a | |
Destination Port (or | Destination Port From/To of 21, then this translation will occur on all accesses | |
by your LAN to all external FTP servers (that is, when one of your LAN | ||
ports)* | ||
computers communicates with an external FTP server, the source IP address | ||
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| in the packet headers is changed to the public address, replacing the initiator's | |
| private IP address). Common port numbers include: | |
| protocol) server | |
| (World Wide Web) server. |
*Specify both a destination address (or range) and a destination port (or range) if you want this translation rule to apply to accesses to the specified server type at the specified IP address or network.
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