THOMSON TG797n, Setup And User Manual

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Thomson Gateway Network Services
9.2 Assigning a service (HTTP, FTP,...) to a Computer
Introduction
The Thomson Gateway allows you to use one Internet connection for multiple computers. This means that all
your computers share one public IP address, as if only one computer were connected to the outside world.
Issue
When the Thomson Gateway receives an incoming message, the Thomson Gateway has to decide to which
computer it has to send this message.
If the incoming message is a response to an outgoing message originating from one of your computers, the
Thomson Gateway sends the incoming message to this computer.
If your are running a server or an application that acts as a server (for example a HTTP server, Internet game),
the initial message will come from the Internet and the Thomson Gateway has no information to decide to
which computer it should forward the incoming message.
Solution
To avoid this problem you can do either of the following:
 Enable UPnP .
 Assign a game or application to a local networking device .
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