2.4.2 Virtual Server
Use the Virtual Server function when you want different servers/clients in your LAN to handle different service/Internet application type (e.g. Email, FTP, Web server etc.) from the Internet. Computers use numbers called port numbers to recognize a particular service/Internet application type. The Virtual Server allows you to
Parameters | Description |
Private IP | This is the LAN client/host IP address that the Public Port |
| number packet will be sent to. |
| Note: You need to give your LAN PC clients a fixed/static IP |
| address for Virtual Server to work properly. |
Private Port | This is the port number (of the above Private IP host) that the |
| below Public Port number will be changed to when the packet |
| enters your LAN (to the LAN Server/Client IP) |
Type | Select the port number protocol type (TCP or UDP). If you are |
| unsure, then leave it to the default TCP protocol. |
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