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DMZ: Disabled:
As set in default setting, it disables the DMZ function.
Enabled:
It activates your DMZ function.
DMZ Host Address:
Give a static IP address to the DMZ Host when
Enabled
radio button is checked. Be aware that this IP will be exposed to the
WAN/Internet.
Select the
Save
button to apply your changes.
Virtual Server
In TCP/IP and UDP networks a port is a 16-bit number used to identify which application
program (usually a server) incoming connections should be delivered to. Some ports
have numbers that are pre-assigned to them by the IANA (the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority), and these are referred to as “well-known ports”. Servers follow the
well-known port assignments so clients can locate them.
If you wish to run a server on your network that can be accessed from the WAN (i.e.
from other machines on the Internet that are outside your local network), or any
application that can accept incoming connections (e.g. Peer-to-peer/P2P software such as
instant messaging applications and P2P file-sharing applications) and are using NAT
(Network Address Translation), then you will usually need to configure your router to
forward these incoming connection attempts using specific ports to the PC on your
network running the application. You will also need to use port forwarding if you want to
host an online game server.
The reason for this is that when using NAT, your publicly accessible IP address will be
used by and point to your router, which then needs to deliver all traffic to the private IP
addresses used by your PCs. Please see the
WAN
configuration section of this manual for
more information on NAT.
The device can be configured as a virtual server so that remote users accessing services
such as Web or FTP services via the public (WAN) IP address can be automatically
redirected to local servers in the LAN network. Depending on the requested service
(TCP/UDP port number), the device redirects the external service request to the
appropriate server within the LAN network.
