TP-Link TL-WR941ND User Guide - Page 55

Port Triggering - port forwarding

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TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND Wireless N Router ) Note: If your computer or server has more than one type of available service, please select another service, and enter the same IP Address for that computer or server. To modify or delete an existing entry: 1. Click the Modify in the entry you want to modify. If you want to delete the entry, click the Delete. 2. Modify the information. 3. Click the Save button. Click the Enable/ Disabled All button to make all entries enabled/ disabled. Click the Delete All button to delete all entries. Click the Next button to go to the next page and click the Previous button to return the previous page. ) Note: If you set the service port of the virtual server as 80, you must set the Web management port on System Tools -> Remote Management page to be any other value except 80 such as 8080. Otherwise there will be a conflict to disable the virtual server. 4.8.2 Port Triggering Choose menu "Forwarding→Port Triggering", you can view and add port triggering in the next screen (shown in Figure 4-32). Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet games, video conferencing, Internet calling and so on. These applications cannot work with a pure NAT Router. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that can work with an NAT Router. Figure 4-32 Port Triggering Once the Router is configured, the operation is as follows: 1. A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the Trigger Port field. 2. The Router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports associated with this -48-

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TL-WR941N/TL-WR941ND
Wireless N Router
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Note:
If your computer or server has more than one type of available service, please select another
service, and enter the same IP Address for that computer or server.
To modify or delete an existing entry:
1.
Click the
Modify
in the entry you want to modify. If you want to delete the entry, click the
Delete
.
2.
Modify the information.
3.
Click the
Save
button.
Click the
Enable/ Disabled All
button to make all entries enabled/ disabled.
Click the
Delete All
button to delete all entries.
Click the
Next
button to go to the next page and click the
Previous
button to return the previous
page.
)
Note:
If you set the service port of the virtual server as 80, you must set the Web management port on
System Tools –> Remote Management
page to be any other value except 80 such as 8080.
Otherwise there will be a conflict to disable the virtual server.
4.8.2 Port Triggering
Choose menu “
Forwarding
Port Triggering
”, you can view and add port triggering in the next
screen (shown in
Figure 4-32
). Some applications require multiple connections, like Internet
games, video conferencing, Internet calling and so on. These applications cannot work with a
pure NAT Router. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that can work with an NAT
Router.
Figure 4-32
Port Triggering
Once the Router is configured, the operation is as follows:
1.
A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the
Trigger Port field.
2.
The Router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports associated with this