User's Manual
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Virtual Server (known as Port Forwarding)
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(usually a server) incoming connections should be delivered to. Some ports have numbers that
are pre-assigned to them by the IANA (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), and these are
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machines on the Internet that are outside your local network), or any application that can accept
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ports to the PC on your network running the application. You will also need to use port forwarding
if you want to host an online game server.
The reason for this is that when using NAT, your publicly accessible IP address will be used by and
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