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Click “Save” to display the following page. Select “Allow” from the “Default”

drop-down list and check the “Enable MAC Filter” feature as below.

4.3.5

WAN Access Control

The WAN Access Control feature allows users to configure your router from Internet

via a web browser.

±

Enable:

Check or uncheck to enable or disable the WAN Access Control feature.

±

Port:

Enter a port ID for remote web-based management. The default is 8080.

±

IP Address:

Enter the IP address of a PC on Internet authorized to access and

manage your router’s web-based utility remotely.

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Note:

If you enter 0.0.0.0 in the IP address box, then all PCs on Internet can access your

router’s Web-based utility to view or change your settings remotely once you

enable the feature.

For example:

If you want to allow only a PC at the IP address of 58.60.111.221 to

access your router’s web-based utility from Internet via port: 8080, you need to

configure same settings as shown on the interface below on your router. And what this

IP user needs to do is to simply launch a browser and enter http://58.251.88.90:8080

(provided that your router’s WAN IP address is 58.251.88.90).

4.4 Advanced Settings

“Advanced Settings” includes the following 6 submenus. Clicking any of them

enters corresponding interface for configuration. Below explains, in details, each

such feature.

4.4.1

Virtual Server

The Virtual Server feature grants Internet users access to services on your LAN. It is

useful for hosting online services such as FTP, Web, or game servers. For each

Virtual Server, you define a WAN port on your router for redirection to an internal

LAN IP Address and LAN port.

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Click “Add” to display below page.

±

WAN Port:

Enter the WAN service port.

±

Well-Known Service Ports:

The “Well-Known Service Port” lists commonly used

protocol ports such as DNS

53, FTP

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, GOPHER(70), HTTP(80), NNTP(1190),

POP3(110), PPTP(1723) , SMTP(25), SOCK(1080), TELNET(23). In case that you

don’t find the port ID you need, add it manually.

∝

LAN Port:

Enter LAN service port.

∝

LAN IP:

The IP address of a computer used as a server in LAN.

∝

Protocol:

Includes TCP, UDP and Both. Select “Both” if you are not sure about

which protocol to use.

∝

Enable:

Check the “Enable” option to activate corresponding entry.

For example:

If you create a web server using port 80 on a LAN PC at the IP address

of 192.168.0.10, and you want WAN users to access such server via

(x.x.x.x represents router’s WAN IP address), then do as follows:

1. Enter “4000” in WAN Port field, 80 in LAN port field and 192.168.0.10 in Private IP

field,

2. Select “Both” from protocol drop-down list.

3. Check the “Enable” box.

4. Click “Save” to save such settings.

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Note:

Setting WAN port hereon to the same value as that on WAN access control section

will deactivate the virtual server feature.

4.4.2 DMZ Settings

In some cases, we need to set a computer to be completely exposed to extranet for

implementation of a bidirectional communication. To do so, we set it as a DMZ

host.

±

DMZ Host IP Address:

Enter the IP address of a LAN computer which you want

to set to a DMZ host.

±

Enable:

Check/uncheck to enable/disable the DMZ host.

NOTE:

1. If you set a PC to a DMZ host, it will be completely exposed to extranet and gains

no more protection from the device firewall.

2. A WAN user accesses the DMZ host through a corresponding WAN IP address.

4.4.3 UPnP Settings

UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) requires Windows ME/Windows XP or later or

application softwares that support such UPnP feature.

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±

ID:

Entry ID.

±

Remote Host:

Description of a remote host that receives/sends responses.

±

WAN Port:

Port on router side.

±

LAN Host:

Description of an internal host that receives/sends responses.

±

LAN Port:

Port on host side.

±

Protocol:

Indicates whether to perform TCP or UDP port forwarding.

±

Description:

Software info of a mapped port.

4.4.4 DDNS Settings

Dynamic DNS or DDNS is a term used for the updating in real time of Internet

Domain Name System (DNS) name servers. We use a numeric IP address allocated

by Internet Service Provider (ISP) to connect to Internet; the address may either be

stable ("static"), or may change from one session on the Internet to the next

("dynamic"). However, a numeric address is inconvenient to remember; an address

which changes unpredictably makes connection impossible. The DDNS provider

allocates a static hostname to the user; whenever the user is allocated a new IP

address this is communicated to the DDNS provider by software running on a

computer or network device at that address; the provider distributes the

association between the hostname and the address to the Internet's DNS servers so

that they may resolve DNS queries. Thus, uninterrupted access to devices and

services whose numeric IP address may change is maintained.

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