EnGenius Technologies ESR9855G manual Port Forwarding

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6.3.4.Port Forwarding

Multiple connections are required by some applications, such as internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony, and others. These applications have difficulties working through NAT (Network Address Translation). This section is used to open multiple ports or a range of ports in your router and redirect data through those ports to a single PC on your network.

￿Enable: Check this box to enable the port forwarding rule.

￿Name: Assign a meaningful name to the virtual server, for example Web Server. Several well-known types of virtual server are available from the Application Name drop-down list. Selecting one of these entries fills some of the remaining parameters with standard values for that type of server.

￿IP Address: Specify the IP address for the virtual server entry.

￿TCP/UDP Ports: Specify the TCP or UDP port numbers.

￿Schedule: Select a schedule, Always, or Never from the drop-down list. If a schedule does not exist, you may create it in the Tools > Schedule section.

￿Inbound Filter: Select an inbound filter from the drop-down list. If an inbound filter does not exist, you may create it from Advanced > Inbound Filter section.

￿Click on the Save button to insert the entry into the Port Forwarding list.

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