TP-Link TL-WR740N manual Port Triggering

TL-WR740N

Wireless Lite N Router

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)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.

4.8.2Port Triggering

Choose menu “Forwarding → Port Triggering”, you can view and add port triggering in the screen as shown in Figure 4-33.Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, video conferencing, Internet calling and so on. These applications cannot work with a pure NAT Router. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that can work with an NAT Router.

Figure 4-33Port Triggering

Once the Router is configured, the operation is as follows:

1.A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the Trigger Port field.

2.The Router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports associated with this entry in the Port Triggering table, and associates them with the local host.

3.When necessary， the external host will be able to connect to the local host using one of the ports defined in the Incoming Ports field.

¾Trigger Port - The port for outgoing traffic. An outgoing connection using this port will trigger this rule.

¾Trigger Protocol - The protocol used for Trigger Ports, either TCP, UDP, or All (all protocols supported by the Router).

¾Incoming Ports Range - The port or port range used by the remote system when it

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