Operation Manual

Handleiding Internet van Ziggo 47
Press Create button to specify rules.
figure 36: Gateway\Advanced\Port Triggers
Port Triggering works as follows. Imagine you want to play a particular game
with PCs somewhere on the Internet. You make one time effort to set up a Port
Trigger for that game, by entering into Trigger Start Port and Trigger End Port
the range of destination ports your game will be sending to, and entering into
Target Start Port the range of destination ports the other player (on the WAN
side) will be sending to (ports your PC’s game receives on). Application
programs like games publish this information in user manuals. Later, each time
you play the game, the gateway automatically creates the forwarding rule
necessary. This rule is valid until 10 minutes after it sees game activity stop. After
10 minutes, the rule becomes inactive until the next matched outgoing traffic
arrives.
e.g., suppose you specify Trigger Range from 6660 to 6670 and Target Range
from 113 to 113. An outbound packet arrives at the gateway with your game-
playing PC source IP address 192.168.0.10, destination port 666 over TCP/IP.
This destination port is within the Trigger destined for port 113 to your game-
playing PC at 192.168.0.10.