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6.5.5 UPnP Setting
The UPnP (Universal Plug and play) protocol is supported to bring to network connected
devices the ease of installation and configuration which is already available for directly
connected PC peripherals with the existing Windows “Plug and Play” system. You can
enable this f
unction so that the router doesn’t need to work out which port need to be
opened.
6.5.6 Port Forwarding
Port Forwarding creates a transparent tunnel through a firewall/NAT, granting an access
from the WAN side to the particular network service running on the LAN side. 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.
Port Forwarding:
you can choose to enable or disable this function.
IP Address:
enter the IP address that you want to forward.
