User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- About This Guide
- Get to Know About Your Router
- Connect the Hardware
- Log into Your Router
- Set Up Internet Connections
- Guest Network
- USB Application
- Parental Control
- Bandwidth Control
- Network Security
- NAT Forwarding
- Customize Your Network Settings
- Manage the Router
- 12. 1. Set Up System Time
- 12. 2. Test the Network Connectivity
- 12. 3. Upgrade the Firmware
- 12. 4. Backup and Restore Configuration Settings
- 12. 5. Change the Administrator Account
- 12. 6. Local Management
- 12. 7. Remote Management
- 12. 8. System Log
- 12. 9. SNMP Settings
- 12. 10. Monitor the Internet Traffic Statistics
- FAQ
- Specifications
Chapter 10
NAT Forwarding
Router’s NAT (Network Address Translation) feature makes the devices in the LAN
use the same public IP address to communicate in the Internet, which protects the
local network by hiding IP addresses of the devices. However, it also brings about the
problem that external host cannot initiatively communicate with the specified device
in the local network.
With forwarding feature the router can penetrate the isolation of NAT and allows the
external hosts in the Internet to initiatively communicate with the devices in the local
network, thus to realize some special functions.
TP-LINK router includes four forwarding rules. If two or more rules are set, the priority
of implementation from high to low is Virtual Servers, Port Triggering, UPNP and DMZ.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Share Local Resources in the Internet by Virtual Server
• Open Ports Dynamically by Port Triggering
• Make Applications Free from Port Restriction by DMZ
• Make Xbox Online Games Run Smoothly by UPnP