BPG510 User Interface Guide
Gateway IP
Enter the IP address of the gateway (i.e., the next router in the network path) to the destination device.
Destination IP Address
Enter the IP address of the device you want to configure static routing for. Any Ethernet packets destined for this IP address will be routed according to this configuration.
Metric
Enter the metric associated with this static route. The Metric field corresponds roughly to the number of hops it takes to get to the network or host being entered.
Interface
Select LAN to route packets destined for this device to the LAN port; Select WAN to route packets destined for this device to the WAN port.
Port Forwarding
The Internet uses ports to specify different types of service requests. For instance, an email message contains a code for port 110 (POP3 mail services) while a web page request contains a code for port 80 (HTTP services). This allows the router to send the requests to the correct host: any marked as port 110 is routed to the mail server, and any data marked as port 80 is routed to the web server.
If you want to set up one or more computers as a host, you must tell the router what services should be sent to that host. This configuration is called port forwarding. There are over four thousand ports defined for different services. Of these, about one thousand are used most often and considered
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