2.6 NAT
Network Address Translation (NAT) allows multiple users at your local site to access the Internet through a single Public IP Address or multiple Public IP Addresses. NAT provides Firewall protection from hacker attacks and has the flexibility to allow you to map Private IP Addresses to Public IP Addresses for key services such as Websites and FTP.
Parameter | Description |
2.6.1 Port Forwarding | You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web |
| etc.) going to different service servers/clients in your |
| LAN. The Port Forwarding allows you to |
| particular range of service port numbers (from the |
| Internet/WAN Ports) to a particular LAN IP address. |
2.6.2 Virtual Server
You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service servers/clients in your LAN. The Virtual Server allows you to
2.6.3 Special Applications | Some applications require multiple connections, such as |
| Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony |
| and others. In this section you can configure the router |
| to support these types of applications. |
2.6.4 UPnP Setting | 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 and access the Internet through this router |
| without any configuration. The NAT Traversal function |
| provided by UPnP can let applications that support |
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