2.7.4 DMZ

If you have a local client PC that cannot run an Internet application (e.g. Games) properly from behind the NAT firewall, then you can open the client up to unrestricted two-way Internet access by defining a DMZ Host. The DMZ function allows you to re-direct all packets going to your WAN port IP address to a particular IP address in your LAN. The difference between the virtual server and the DMZ function is that the virtual server re-directs a particular service/Internet application to a particular LAN client/server, whereas DMZ re-directs all packets (regardless of services) going to your WAN IP address to a particular LAN client/server.

Parameters

Description

Enable DMZ

Enable/disable DMZ

 

Note: If there is a conflict between the Virtual

 

Server and the DMZ setting, then Virtual Server

 

function will have priority over the DMZ function.

Public IP Address

The IP address of the WAN port or any other Public

 

IP addresses given to you by your ISP

Client PC IP Address

Input the IP address of a particular host in your

 

LAN that will receive all the packets originally going

 

to the WAN port/Public IP address above

 

Note: You need to give your LAN PC clients a

 

fixed/static IP address for DMZ to work properly.

 

 

 

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