Port mapping / redirection |
With NetCom you can redirect one port to other (known as "Port mapping"). Port redirection can be used for access Internet users to the web-server in you'r local network:
If you'r web-server run on IP: 192.168.0.10 and port: 8080, to allow access to this web-server from external network you must create rule:
CONDITIONS:
Interfaces: External interface
Packets direction: Incoming
Protocols: TCP
Destination port: 80
ACTIONS:
Packet action: Allow
Replace destination IP with: 192.168.0.10
Replace destination port with: 8080
Add data about packet to the NAT table: Enabled
That's all...
Now all incoming packets from external network to 80 port will be redirected to 192.168.0.10:8080. Answering packets from 192.168.0.10:8080 will be redirected backward automatically by NAT-table of NetCom.
Port redirection also can be used for redirect WWW requests to transparent caching proxy, like SquidNT for example.