Linksys WRT400N manual Applications and Gaming Single Port Forwarding, Port Range Forwarding

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Chapter 3

Advanced Configuration

Applications and Gaming > Single Port Forwarding

The Single Port Forwarding screen allows you to customize port services for common applications.

When users send these types of requests to your network via the Internet, the Router will forward those requests to the appropriate servers (computers). Before using forwarding, you should assign static IP addresses to the designated servers.

Applications and Gaming > Single Port Forwarding

Single Port Forwarding

To forward a port, enter the information on each line for the criteria required.

Application  Select a pre-configured application, or enter the name you wish to give the application. Each name can have up to 12 characters.

External and Internal Port  Enter the external and internal port numbers.

Protocol  Select the protocol used for this application, either TCP or UDP.

IP Address  For each application, enter the IP address of the computer that should receive the requests.

Enabled  For each application, select Enabled to enable port forwarding.

Click Save Settings to apply your changes, or click Cancel Changes to cancel your changes.

Applications and Gaming > Port Range Forwarding

The Applications & Gaming > Port Range Forwarding screen allows you to set up public services on your network, such as web servers, ftp servers, e-mail servers, or other specialized Internet applications. (Specialized Internet applications are any applications that use Internet access to perform functions such as videoconferencing or online gaming. Some Internet applications may not require any forwarding.)

Applications and Gaming > Port Range Forwarding

Port Range Forwarding

To forward a port, enter the information on each line for the criteria required.

Application  In this field, enter the name you wish to give the application. Each name can be up to 12 characters.

Start/End  This is the port range. Enter the number that starts the port range in the Start column and the number that ends the range in the End column.

Protocol  Select the protocol used for this application, either TCP or UDP, or Both.

IP Address  For each application, enter the IP Address of the computer running the specific application.

Enabled  Select Enabled to enable port forwarding for the relevant application.

Click Save Settings to apply your changes, or click Cancel Changes to cancel your changes.

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Linksys WRT400N manual Applications and Gaming Single Port Forwarding, Applications and Gaming Port Range Forwarding