TP-Link Understanding Port Triggering on Your Router

TL-MR3020Portable 3G/4G Wireless N Router

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1.Find the desired entry in the table.

2.Click Modify or Delete as desired on the Modify column.

Click the Enable/ Disable All button to make all entries enabled/ disabled. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries.

Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return to the previous page.

)Note:

If you set the service port of the virtual server as 80, you must set the Web management port on Security –> Remote Management page to be any other value except 80 such as 8080. Otherwise there will be a conflict to disable the virtual server.

5.8.2Port Triggering

Choose menu “Forwarding→Port Triggering”, you can view and add port triggering in the next screen (shown in Figure 5-34). Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephoning and so on. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that cannot work with a pure NAT Router.

Figure 5-34Port Triggering

To add a new rule, follow the steps below.

1.Click the Add New… button, the next screen will pop-up as shown in Figure 5-35.

2.Select a common application from the Common Applications drop-down list, then the Trigger Port field and the Incoming Ports field will be automatically filled. If the Common Applications do not have the application you need, enter the Trigger Port and the Incoming Ports manually.

3.Select the protocol used for Trigger Port from the Trigger Protocol drop-down list, either TCP, UDP, or All.

4.Select the protocol used for Incoming Ports from the Incoming Protocol drop-down list, either TCP or UDP, or All.

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