Wi-Fi Personal Bridge 150
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Port Forwarding
Entries in this table allow you to automatically redirect common network services to a specific
machine behind the NAT firewall. These settings are only 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.
Your device has built in advanced Security features that protect your network by blocking unwanted
traffic from the Internet.
If you simply want to connect from your local network to the Internet, you do not need to make any
changes to the default Security configuration. You only need to edit the configuration if you wish to
do one or both of the following:
•
allow Internet users to browse the user pages on your local network (for example, by providing
an FTP or HTTP server)
•
play certain games which require accessibility from the Internet
This chapter describes how to configure Security to suit the needs of your network.
By default, the IP addresses of your LAN PCs are hidden from the Internet. All data sent from your
LAN PCs to a PC on the Internet appears to come from the IP address of your device.
In this way, details about your LAN PCs remain private. This security feature is called
Port
Forwarding
.
1. From the left-hand
Firewall -> Port Forwarding
menu. The following page is displayed:
