TP-Link TD-W8980 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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Figure 4-60

2.

Enter the following data:

¾

Destination IP Address:

The

Destination IP Address

is the address of the network or host

that you want to assign to a static route.

¾

Subnet Mask:

The

Subnet Mask

determines which portion of an IP Address is the network

portion, and which portion is the host portion.

¾

Gateway:

Here you should type the Gateway address correctly, and the option for

Interface

will adopt the default Gateway address for the Static Route.

¾

Interface:

Select the Interface name in the text box, or else, the default Use Interface will be

adopted for the Static Route.

¾

Status:

Select

Enabled

or

disabled

from the drop-down list

.

3.

Click

Save

to save your settings as shown in Figure 4-60.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1

Find the desired entry in the table.

2

Click

Edit

as desired on the

Edit

column.

Click the

Enable/ Disabled Selected

button to make selected entries enabled/ disabled.

Click the

Delete Selected

button to delete selected entries.

4.11.3 IPv6 Static Route

Choose “

Route Settings

”

Æ

“

IPv6 Static Route

”. You can see the IPv6 Static Route screen. This

screen allows you to configure the IPv6 static routes (shown in Figure 4-59). An IPv6 static route is

a pre-determined path that network information must travel to reach a specific host or network.

Figure 4-61

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To add a new entry, follow the instructions below.

1.

Click the

Add New

button in Figure 4-61, and you will see the screen as shown in Figure

4-62.

Figure 4-62

2.

Enter the following data:

¾

Destination IPv6 Address:

The

Destination IPv6 Address

is the address of the network or

host that you want to assign to a static route.

¾

Prefix Length:

The prefix length of the destination IPv6 address.

¾

Gateway:

Here you should type the IPv6 Gateway address correctly, and the option for

Interface

will adopt the default IPv6 Gateway address for the IPv6 Static Route.

¾

Interface:

Select the Interface name from the drop-down list, or else, the default Interface will

be adopted for the IPv6 Static Route.

¾

Status:

Select

Enabled

or

Disabled

from the drop-down list

.

3.

Click

Save

to save your settings.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1.

Find the desired entry in the table.

2.

Click

Edit

as desired on the

Edit

column.

Click the

Enable/ Disabled Selected

button to make selected entries enabled/ disabled.

Click the

Delete Selected

button to delete selected entries.

4.11.4 RIP Settings

Choose “

Route Settings

”

Æ

“

RIP Settings

”, you can see the RIP (Routing Information Protocol)

screen which allows you to configure the RIP.

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Figure 4-63

)

Note:

RIP cannot be configured on the WAN Interface which has NAT enabled (such as PPPoE).

4.12 Forwarding

There are four submenus under the Forwarding menu:

Virtual Servers

,

Port Triggering

,

DMZ

and

UPnP

. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function.

4.12.1 Virtual Servers

Choose menu “

Forwarding

”

→

“

Virtual Servers

”, and then you can view and add virtual servers

in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-64). Virtual servers can be used for setting up public

services on your LAN. A virtual server is defined as a service port, and all requests from Internet

to this service port will be redirected to the computer specified by the server IP. Any PC that was

used for a virtual server must have a static or reserved IP address because its IP address may

change when using the DHCP function.

Figure 4-64

¾

Service Port:

The numbers of External Service Ports. You can enter a service port or a

range of service ports (the format is XXX – YYY; XXX is the Start port and YYY is the End

port).

¾

IP Address

: The IP address of the PC running the service application.

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¾

Protocol

: The protocol used for this application, either

TCP

,

UDP

, or

All

(all protocols

supported by the modem router).

¾

Status

: The status of this entry, "Enabled" means the virtual server entry is enabled.

¾

Edit

: To modify or delete an existing entry.

To set up a virtual server entry:

1.

Click the

Add New

button. (pop-up

Figure 4-65)

2.

Select the service you want to use from the

Common Service Port

list. If the

Common

Service Port

menu does not list the service that you want to use, enter the number of the

service port or service port range in the

Service Port

field.

3.

Select the service you want to use from the

Use Interface

list.

4.

Enter the IP address of the computer running the service application in the

IP Address

field.

5.

Select the protocol used for this application in the

Protocol

drop-down list, either

TCP

,

UDP

,

or

All

.

6.

Select the

Enabled

option in the

Status

drop-down list.

Click the

Save

button.

Figure 4-65

)

Note:

It is possible that you have a computer or server that has more than one type of available service.

If so, select another service, and type the same IP address for that computer or server.

To modify or delete an existing entry:

1.

Find the desired entry in the table.

2.

Click

Edit

as desired on the

Edit

column.

Click the

Enable/ Disabled Selected

button to make selected entries enabled/ disabled.

Click the

Delete Selected

button to delete selected entries.

)

Note:

If you set the service port of the virtual server as 80, you must set the Web management port on

System Tools –> Manage Control

page to be any other value except 80 such as 8080.

Otherwise there will be a conflict to disable the virtual server.

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4.12.2 Port Triggering

Choose menu “

Forwarding

”

→

”

Port Triggering

”, you can view and add port triggering in the

next screen (shown in Figure 4-66). Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet

games, video conferencing, Internet telephoning and so on. Port Triggering is used for some of

these applications that cannot work with a pure NAT modem router.

Figure 4-66

To add a new rule, follow the steps below.

1.

Click the

Add New

button, the next screen will pop-up as shown in Figure 4-67.

2.

Select a common application from the

Common Service Port

drop-down list, then the

Trigger Port

field and the

Open Ports

field will be automatically filled. If the

Common

Service Port

does not have the application you need, enter the

Trigger Port

and the

Open

Ports

manually.

3.

Select the protocol used for Trigger Port from the

Trigger Protocol

drop-down list, either

TCP

,

UDP

, or

All

.

4.

Select the protocol used for Incoming Ports from the

Open Protocol

drop-down list, either

TCP

or

UDP

, or

All.

5.

Select

Enable

in

Status

field.

6.

Click the

Save

button to save the new rule.

Figure 4-67

¾

Trigger Port

: The port for outgoing traffic. An outgoing connection using this port will trigger

this rule.

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