User's Manual

Chapter 3: Connections and setup
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Forwarding
For LAN Ù WAN communications, the gateway normally only allows you to originate an IP connection
with a PC on the WAN; it will ignore attempts of the WAN PC to originate a connection onto your PC.
This protects you from malicious attacks from outsiders. However, sometimes you may wish for anyone
outside to be able to originate a connection to a particular PC on your LAN if the destination port
(application) matches one you specify.
Fig. 16: Forwarding Settings