Edimax Router BR-6215NRg User Manual

 
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2.6 NAT 
Network Address Translation (NAT) allows multiple users at your local site to access the Internet through a single Public 
IP Address or multiple Public IP Addresses. NAT provides Firewall protection from hacker attacks and has the flexibility 
to allow you to map Private IP Addresses to Public IP Addresses for key services such as Websites and FTP. 
 
 
 
 
 
Parameters   Description 
Port Forwarding You can have different services (e.g. email, FTP, Web etc.) going to different service...

 
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Parameters   Description 
Enable Port Forwarding  Enable Port Forwarding 
Private IP This is the private IP of the server behind the NAT firewall. 
Note: You need to give your LAN PC clients a fixed/static IP address for Port Forwarding 
to work properly. 
Type This is the protocol type to be forwarded. You can choose to forward “TCP” or “UDP” 
packets only or select “both” to forward both “TCP” and “UDP” packets. 
Port Range  The range of ports to be forward to the private IP. 
Comment  The...

 
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Parameters   Description 
Enable Virtual Serve  Enable Virtual Server. 
Private IP This is the LAN client/host IP address that the Public Port number packet will be sent to. 
Note: You need to give your LAN PC clients a fixed/static IP address for Virtual Server to 
work properly. 
Private Port This is the port number (of the above Private IP host) that the below Public Port number 
will be changed to when the packet enters your LAN (to the LAN Server/Client IP) 
Type Select the port number...

 
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Note: For the virtual server to work properly Internet/remote users must know your global IP address. (For websites you 
will need to have a fixed/static global/public IP address) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2.6.3 Special Applications 
Some applications require multiple connections, such as Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony and 
others. In this section you can configure the router to support multiple connections for these types of applications. 
 
Parameters   Description 
Enable...

 
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Comment  The description of this setting. 
Popular applications This section lists the more popular applications that require multiple connections. Select 
an application from the Popular Applications selection. Once you have selected an 
application, select a location (1-10) in the Copy to selection box and then click the Copy 
to button. This will automatically list the Public Ports required for this popular application 
in the location (1-10) you’d specified. 
Add Special Application Fill in...

 
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Parameters Default Description 
UPnP Feature Disable You can Enable or Disable UPnP feature here. After you enable the 
UPnP feature, all client systems that support UPnP, like Windows 
XP, can discover this router automatically and access the Internet 
through this router without any configuration. The NAT Traversal 
function provided by UPnP can let applications that support UPnP 
smoothly connect to Internet sites without any incompatibility problem 
due to the NAPT port translation. 
 
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Parameters   Description 
Enable Static Routing Static Routing function is default disabled. You have to enable the Static Routing function 
before your routing rules take effect. 
Destination LAN IP  The network address of destination LAN. 
Subnet Mask  The subnet mask of destination LAN. 
Default Gateway The next stop gateway of the path toward the destination LAN. This is the IP of the neighbor 
router that this router should communicate with on the path to the destination LAN. 
Hop Count...

 
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Parameters   Description 
Access Control  Access Control allows you to specify which hosts users can or cannot have access to 
certain Internet applications 
URL Blocking  URL Blocking allows you to specify which URLs can not be accessed by users. 
DoS  The Broadband routers firewall can block common hacker attacks and can log the attack 
activities. 
DMZ The DMZ function allows you to re-direct all packets going to your WAN port IP address 
to a particular IP address in your LAN. 
 
Click on...

 
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Parameters   Description 
Deny If select “Deny” then all PCs will be allowed to access Internet accept for the PCs in the 
list below. 
Allow If select “Allow” then all PCs will be denied to access Internet accept for the PCs in the 
list below. 
Filter client PCs by IP  Fill “IP Filtering Table” to filter PC clients by IP. 
Add PC  You can click Add PC to add an access control rule for users by IP addresses. 
Remove PC If you want to remove some PC from the IP Filtering Table, select the PC you...

 
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Parameters   Description 
Client PC Description  The description for this client PC rule. 
Client PC IP Addresses Enter the IP address range that you wish to apply this Access Control rule. This is the 
user’s IP address (es) that you wish to setup an Access Control rule. 
Note: You need to give your LAN PC clients a fixed/static IP address for the Access 
Control rule to work properly. 
Client PC Service You can block the clients from accessing some Internet services by checking the services...