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Port forwarding allow other external ports on Orbi RBR850
I'm only forwarding one external port to internal port 22, however, the logs show various external ports forwarding to internal port 22. Those external ports have no entries in the "Port Forwarding ...
Hello ChocB ,
Welcome to the NETGEAR Community!
Understanding port numbers can be tedious due to the number of processes that are used to create instances such as sessions for TCP/UDP configurations. The ports mentioned are mainly listener ports used by your internal application. These ports cannot be blocked because they are dynamic ports that are used to fulfill a purpose. This is the reason why all of the mentioned ports are only logged once.
Best,
Kevin
NETGEAR Team