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Port Forwarding

This will allow you to open a single port or a range of ports.

Check the box to enabled the rule.

Enter a name for the rule.

You may select a pre-defined rule from the drop-down menu.

Select a rule and then click

<<.

to populate the required fields.

Enter the IP address of the computer on your local network

that you want to allow the incoming service to.

Enter the port or range of ports that you want to open. If you

want to open one port, enter the same port in both boxes.

In most cases the Public and Private ports will be exactly the

same.

Select

TCP

,

UDP

, or

Any

.

Enable:

Name:

Application

Name:

IP Address:

Start Port/

End Port:

Traffic Type:

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Application Rules

Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet gaming, video conferencing, Internet telephony and others.

These applications may have difficulties working through NAT (Network Address Translation). Special Applications makes

some of these applications work with the DIR-600L. If you need to run applications that require multiple connections, specify

the port normally associated with an application in the “Trigger” field, select the protocol type as TCP or UDP, then enter the

firewall (public) ports associated with the trigger port to open them for inbound traffic.

The DIR-600L provides some predefined applications in the table on the bottom of the web page. Select the application you

want to use and enable it.

Check the box to enable the rule.

Enter a name for the rule.

You may select a pre-defined rule from the drop-down

menu. Select and click << to populate the required

fields.

This is the port used to trigger the application. It can

be either a single port or a range of ports.

This is the port number on the Internet side that will

be used to access the application. You may define a

single port or a range of ports. You can use a comma

to add multiple ports or port ranges.

Select

TCP

,

UDP

, or

Any

.

Enable:

Name:

Application:

Trigger:

Firewall:

Traffic Type:

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MAC Filtering

Select

Turn.MAC.Filtering.OFF

,

Turn.MAC.Filtering.ON.and.

ALLOW.computers.listed.to.access.the.network

, or

Turn.

MAC.Filtering.ON.and.DENY.computers.listed.to.access.

the.network

.

Enter the MAC address you would like to filter. To find the

MAC address on a computer, please refer to the Networking

Basics section in this manual.

Select a DHCP client from the drop-down menu and click the

<<

button to populate the required fields.

The schedule of time when the network filter will be enabled.

The schedule may be set to

Always

, which will allow the

particular service to always be enabled. You can create your

own times by clicking

.Add.New

.

Configure MAC

Filter:

MAC Address:

DHCP Client

List:

Schedule:

Use MAC Filters to allow or deny LAN (Local Area Network) computers by their MAC addresses from accessing the Network.

You can either manually add a MAC address or select the MAC address from the list of clients that are currently connected to

the Router.

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Traffic Control

Traffic control can be used to distribute download bandwidth automatically

according to the requirements of the users, and

the users also can setup manually.

Select this function to control the access bandwidth of

computer in LAN.

All the computers in LAN will be distributed bandwidth

equally.

Manually enter the download bandwidth.

Manually enter the upload bandwidth.

When the option Automatic Distribute Bandwidth is

unchecked, you can control the access bandwidth of

the specific device on your network.

Enable Traffic Control:

Automatic Distribute

Bandwidth:

Key in download

bandwidth manually:

Key in upload

bandwidth manually:

Traffic Control Rules:

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Firewall & DMZ

This section will allow you to set up a DMZ host and to set up firewall rules.

Enable this feature to protect your network from certain kinds

of “spoofing” attacks.

SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection, also known as dynamic packet

filtering) helps to prevent cyber attacks by tracking more state

per session. It validates that the traffic passing through the

session conforms to the protocol.

Check to enable DMZ.

Enter the IP address of the computer you would like to open all

ports to. You may enter the IP address of the computer/device

you want to open all ports to or select it from the drop-down

menu and click

<<

.

Allows application that uses Real Time Streaming Protocol to

receive streaming media from the Internet. QuickTime and Real

Player are some of the common applications using this protocol.

Enter a name for the firewall rule.

Select to

Allow

or

Deny

transport of the data packets according

to the criteria defined in the rule.

The Source/Destination is the TCP/UDP port on either the LAN

or WAN side.

Click

Add.New

to access the Schedules window. Refer to

Maintenance.

>

Schedules

for more information.

Enter a beginning and ending IP address.

Select the transport protocol that will be used for the filter rule.

Enter the desired port range for the filter rule.

Anti-Spoof

Checking:

Enable SPI:

Enable DMZ Host:

DMZ IP Address:

RTSP:

Name:

Action:

Source/Dest:

Schedule:

IP Address:

Protocol:

Port Range: