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Step 9:

Select the

Available Rules

for a given category. The

Available Rules

window

displays the common Internet services within the selected category. Rules for

each service can be viewed by clicking the

View

button.

The

Rule Management

page appears:

Step 10:

Click the

Add

button. The rule then appears in the

Applied Rules

section of

the screen. Continue to add rules as they apply from each category.

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Step 11:

Click the

Apply

button to apply the settings.

Step 12:

To save your configuration, please refer to the section under

Save / Restart

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The following table lists the

Port Forwarding

screen fields and their definitions:

Field

Description

WAN Connection

Select a defined WAN connection.

Allow Incoming Ping

Ping

is a protocol used mainly for monitoring the connectivity

between IP devices. Enabling this function allows remote

devices to use ping to check connectivity to your device.

Enable this function for monitoring purposes.

Select LAN Group

Select the

LAN Group

where the computer of the port to be

forwarded to is a member. LAN Groups can be managed or

created under

Setup>LAN Configuration

LAN IP

This is the IP address to which the selected ports are

forwarded. It is recommended that a static IP address be used.

This should be defined under the

LAN Clients

screen.

New IP

Clicking on this link leads to the

LAN Client

screen. Static

addresses not listed under the

LAN IP

drop-down list can be

added here.

DMZ

This links to the

Demilitarised (DMZ)

screen. Please refer to

the section on

DMZ

for details on this function.

Custom Port

Forwarding

Clicking on this link leads to the

Custom Port Forwarding

screen.

Please refer to the section on

Custom Port Forwarding

for

details on this function.

Category

section of the

Port Forwarding

screen.

To configure a service or game, select the external

connection (for e.g. the Internet connection), select the

computer hosting the service and add the corresponding

firewall rule.

A number of pre-defined categories and rules are available

here. These are

Games, VPN, Audio/Video, Apps, Servers

and

Users

E.g. Web servers specify the following port forwarding profile.

The categories available for Port Forwarding include: Games,

VPN, Audio/Video, Apps (or applications), Servers and Users.

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Field

Description

Games

Internet users are able to play Internet

games when this function is configured.

Examples of the games list include

Aliens and Predators, Doom, Dune

2000, etc.

VPN

The default VPN settings are: IPSEC

L2TP and PPTP.

Audio/Video

Net2Phone, Netmeeting and Quick

Time 4 Server can be configured for

Audio/Video services.

Apps

Various applications are set as defaults

under this category, including: VNC,

Win2K terminals, PcAnywhere, etc.

Servers

The default servers include: Web

Servers, FTP server, Telnet Server, and

so on.

Users

New user rules can be added here.

Available Rules

Each category has

Available Rules

that are pre-defined or

user-defined. Default rules such as Netmeeting is available

under the

Audio/Video

category and Web Server is an

available rule under the

Servers

category.

View

To view the profile allocated for each category and available

rule, click the

View

button.

Add

The

Add

button allows users to add the applied rule as

required.

Remove

To delete an existing applied rule, click the

Remove

button.

Applied Rules

This specifies the applied

Port Forwarding

rule for the selected

WAN Connection and the LAN IP.

8.4.1

Allow Incoming Ping

Enabling the

Incoming Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Ping

will allow Echo

requests to come into the gateway. The gateway will respond with an ICMP Echo

response message. The option allows the DSL provider or ISP to determine the following:

The status of the network;

Tracking and isolating hardware and software problems;

Testing, measuring and managing networks.

8.4.2

DMZ

Setting a computer on your local network as DMZ forwards any network traffic that is not

redirected to another computer via the

Port Forwarding

feature to the computer's IP

address. This opens access to the DMZ computer from the Internet.

The DMZ feature is disabled by default.

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Follow the steps below to enable

DMZ

Step 1

From the

Port Forwarding

screen, click the

DMZ

link next to the New IP

button. The following page appears:

Step 2

Check the

Enable DMZ

checkbox. This is configurable per LAN segment.

Step 3

From the

Select Your WAN Connection

drop-down list, select the connection

type for which you wish to add the

DMZ

Step 4

From the

Select LAN Group

drop-down list, select the LAN group for which

you wish to enable the

DMZ

It is recommended that the Static IP Addresses rather than the DHCP IP

Addresses be used for the DMZ host.

Step 5:

Select the DMZ Host IP Address from the

Select a LAN IP Address

drop-

down list. If your IP Address is not listed, click the

LAN Clients

link provided

and follow the instructions under the

LAN Clients

screen.

Step 6:

Click the

Apply

button to apply the settings.

Step 7:

To save your configuration, please refer to the section under

Save / Restart

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