Edimax Technology Broadband Router manual Port Forwarding, Special Applications, UPnP Setting

Parameters	Description
	You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service
Port Forwarding	servers/clients in your LAN. The Port Forwarding allows you to re-direct a particular range
	of service port numbers (from the Internet/WAN Ports) to a particular LAN IP address.
	You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service
Virtual Server	servers/clients in your LAN. The Virtual Server allows you to re-direct a particular service
	port number (from the Internet/WAN Port) to a particular LAN IP address and its service
	port number.
	Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video
Special Applications	conferencing, Internet telephony and others. In this section you can configure the router to
	support these types of applications.
	It allows to Enable or Disable UPnP feature here. After you enable the UPnP feature, all
	client systems that support UPnP, like Windows XP, can discover this router automatically
UPnP Setting	and access the Internet through this router without any configuration. The NAT Traversal
	function provided by UPnP can let applications that support UPnP smoothly connect to
	Internet sites without any incompatibility problem due to the NAPT port translation.
ALG Setting	You can select special applications that need “Application Layer Gateway” to support here.
Static Routing	You can disable NAT function and setup the routing rules manually.

Click on one of the three NAT selections and proceed to the manual's relevant sub-section.

2.6.1 Port Forwarding

The Port Forwarding allows you to re-direct a particular range of service port numbers (from the Internet/WAN Ports) to a particular LAN IP address. It helps you to host some servers behind the router NAT firewall.

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