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You probably need a little basic information about NAT routers
Zaibotsu
You probably need a little basic information about NAT routers and firewalls. Actually a NAT router is sometimes called a circuit firewall. NAT stands for Network Address Translation. Consider a PUBLIC IP address that is on the WAN side (the internet) of your router. Without a router, anyone on the intenet can address your computer directly with that public IP address, on any port your PC is open to (and there are a lot!).
Insert the NAT router in between, and anyone trying to access your computer from the outside has a dead end at the router, as it does not know what INTERNAL ADDRESS to forward the request to, and by default blocks MOST ports anyway.
When you are on the WEB, using a browser, and going through the NAT router, YOU initiate a connection through Port 80, which is open by default on the NAT router for traffic initiated BY YOU. The Router knows through the translation, that you made the request and allows the response to your internal IP. Traffic initiated on the oustside on port 80 stops at the router.
Configuring port forwarding for a game works much the same way as allowing you to initiate communication with a browser and sholuld not be any more risky than ordinary web surfing.
However, setting a DMZ (this allows all traffic to be forwarded to your computer) is like hooking your computer directly to the internet, not a good idea.
More information (easier to understand than most sites) is available at http://computer.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm
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• I took even more time & disconnected my router & connected my internet
• Is anyone familiar with the setup for these - since I got the VT2442, I can't get
• Need your current network setup information however if the vt2442 is the only
• can any1 tell me where 2 go 2 turn off the firewall on the router?
• Zaibotsu,
What is the make and model of the router you are asking the question
• Slyster -
Thanks so much for the info...I'll play around with it later and
• Slyster -
On the power up cycle is it -
modem first
then vonage vt2442
then
• Ok - I have a connection but it's unsecured....I can connect to web sites on the
• bellbuster,
Can you confirm the IP you have on your laptop as well as the IP
• Well like I say I have an unsecured connection and it's working fine that says "linksys"
ed56 posted "Zaibotsu
You probably need a little basic information about NAT routers" on 10/30/2008 |
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