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Port Forwarding with FVS336G Dual Firewall
I have the FVS336Gv2 Dual Firewall and I am trying to set up basic port forwarding to allow access to our web server from the other side of the wall (ie through the Internet). Once I can get access to...
To give a working example: if I was using a standard NetGear router I would select Port Forwarding, create a service name, set the start port and end port to be one value and set the server IP address as the local LAN IP address of the machine to forward to. Then from the Internet I would use http://externalip:XXXX where XXXX is the port number. This has always worked for our IP cameras and our various web sites without my having to change the internal port value on the internal web server or on the IP cameras...
if you are ONLY using port 80 then you do NOT need to use port translation
if you are masking the actual server port 80 from WAN then specify the your desire port number under port translation ex 7777 --->80
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