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Advanced_Inbound Filter When you use the Virtual Server, Gaming, or Remote Administration features to open specific ports to
traffic from the Internet, you could be increasing the exposure of your LAN to cyber attacks from the
Internet. In these cases, you can use Inbound Filters to limit that exposure by specifying the IP
addresses of internet hosts that you trust to access your LAN through the ports that you have opened.
You might, for example, only allow access to a game server on your home LAN from the computers of
friends whom you have invited to play the games on that server.
Inbound Filters can be used for limiting access to a server on your network to a system or group of
systems. Filter rules can be used with Virtual Server, Gaming, or Remote Administration features.
Each filter can be used for several functions; for example a "Game Clan" filter might allow all of the
members of a particular gaming group to play several different games for which gaming entries have
been created. At the same time an "Admin" filter might only allows systems from your office network to
access the WAN admin pages and an FTP server you use at home. If you add an IP address to a filter,
the change is effected in all of the places where the filter is used.