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Choose menu “Forwarding  → Port Triggering”, and then you can view and add port triggering 

in the screen as shown in Figure 4-40. Some applications require multiple connections, like 

Internet games, video conferencing, Internet calling and so on. These applications cannot work 

with a pure NAT Router. Port Triggering is used for some of these applications that can work with 

an NAT Router. 

 

Figure 4-40   

Port Triggering 

Once the Router is configured, the operation is as follows:   

1.  A local host makes an outgoing connection using a destination port number defined in the 

Trigger Port field.   

2.  The Router records this connection, opens the incoming port or ports associated with this 

entry in the Port Triggering table, and associates them with the local host.   

3. When 

necessary，  the external host will be able to connect to the local host using one of the 

ports defined in the Incoming Ports field. 

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Trigger Port - The port for outgoing traffic. An outgoing connection using this port will trigger 
this rule. 

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Trigger Protocol - The protocol used for Trigger Ports, either TCP,  UDP, or All  (all 
protocols supported by the Router). 

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Incoming Ports Range - The port or port range used by the remote system when it 
responds to the outgoing request. A response using one of these ports will be forwarded to 
the PC that triggered this rule. You can input at most 5 groups of ports (or port sections). 
Every group of ports must be set apart with ",". For example, 2000-2038, 2050-2051, 2085, 
3010-3030. 

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Incoming Protocol - The protocol used for Incoming Ports Range, either TCP or UDP, or 
ALL (all protocols supported by the Router). 

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Status - The status of this entry, either Enabled or Disabled.