necessary if you wish to host some sort of server like a web server or mail
server on the private local network behind your Gateway's NAT firewall.
Screen snapshot – Firewall - Port Forwarding
Item
Description
Enable Port Forwarding Click to enable the Port Forwarding security function.
IP Address
Protocol
Port Range
Comment
To forward data packets coming from WAN to a specific
IP address that hosted in local network behind the NAT
firewall, fill in the IP address, protocol, port range and
your comments.
The
Protocol
can be TCP, UDP or Both.
The
Port Range
for data transmission.
Comments
let you know about whys to allow data
packets forward to the IP address and port number.
Apply Changes
Click the
Apply Changes
button to register the IP address
and port number to Port forwarding list.
Reset Click
the
Reset
button to abort change and recover the
previous configuration setting.
Delete Selected
Click to delete the selected IP address and port number
that will be removed from the port-forwarding list.
Delete All
Click to delete all the registered entries from the
port-forwarding list.
