Compex Technologies WPE54 manual To set up port forwarding

Chapter 5 Further Configuration

5.3.2To set up port forwarding

Port forwarding allows the access point to redirect any incoming Internet request bearing a public IP address to a specific PC on your network, based on the incoming packet’s TCP/UDP port number.

You can thus use TCP port forwarding to hide your web-server behind the access point for added security while using UDP port forwarding lets you run a secure multiplayer game server.

The following diagram shows the access point with a public IP address of 203.120.90.3 and a private IP address of 192.168.168.1. All incoming packets with port number 80 will be forwarded to the Web server, known on the LAN as 192.168.168.5, while those with port number 21 will be directed to the FTP server which has a private IP address of 192.168.168.8.

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