To forward a single port or a range of ports to the firewall, you can use the port forwarding rule wizard. Port forward rules would be used to send traffic to a device in the LAN firewall zone.
<Figure/Illustration 1 port forward rule wizard>
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Description |
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Source Zone |
Since this is the port forward rule wizard, the source zone is automatically configured to “Internet” and can not be edited. |
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Source IP address |
If required, access to the port forward rule can be restricted to a particular source IP address or address range. To configure an IP range, specify the non-zero bits of the netmask numerically after a / character. <ip_address>/<numerical_netmask> |
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Source start port |
The start port of the source which you would like to be able to access this port forward rule. |
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Source end point |
The end port of the source which you would like to be able to access this port forward rule. |
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Destination Zone |
The allocated zone of your destination device. For port forward rules this option is limited to LAN and DMZ. |
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Destination IP address |
The ip address of the destination device to be accessed by this port forward rule. |
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Destination start port |
The start port to be accessed on the destination device. |
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Destination end port |
The final port in the range to be accessed on the destination device. |
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Protocol |
The communication protocol that will be available on this rule. Select between tcp and udp. |
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Loglevel |
The logging tag you would like attatched to any logging on this route. |
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Enable |
An Enable toggle. If unchecked, the rule will not be active. |
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Description |
An optional description for the firewall rule. |