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Wireless-N 150 Router WNR1000v2 User Manual 
Fine-Tuning Your Network
5-5
v1.0, September 2009
How Port Forwarding Changes the Communication Process
In both of the preceding examples, your computer initiates an application session with a server 
computer on the Internet. However, you might need to allow a client computer on the Internet to 
initiate a connection to a server computer on your network. Normally, your router ignores any 
inbound traffic that is not a response to your own outbound traffic. You can configure exceptions 
to this default rule by using the port forwarding feature. 
A typical application of port forwarding can be shown by reversing the client-server relationship 
from our previous Web server example. In this case, a remote computer’s browser needs to access 
a Web server running on a computer in your local network. Using port forwarding, you can tell the 
router, “When you receive incoming traffic on port 80 (the standard port number for a Web server 
process), forward it to the local computer at 192.168.1.123.” The following sequence shows the 
effects of the port forwarding rule you have defined:
1. The user of a remote computer opens Internet Explorer and requests a Web page from 
www.example.com, which resolves to the public IP address of your router. The remote 
computer composes a Web page request message with the following destination information: 
The destination address is the IP address of www.example.com, which is the address of 
your router.
The destination port number is 80, the standard port number for a Web server process.
The remote computer then sends this request message through the Internet to your router.
2. Your router receives the request message and looks in its rules table for any rules covering the 
disposition of incoming port 80 traffic. Your port forwarding rule specifies that incoming port 
80 traffic should be forwarded to local IP address 192.168.1.123. Therefore, your router 
modifies the destination information in the request message:
The destination address is replaced with 192.168.1.123.
Your router then sends this request message to your local network.
3. Your Web server at 192.168.1.123 receives the request and composes a return message with 
the requested Web page data. Your Web server then sends this reply message to your router.
4. Your router performs Network Address Translation (NAT) on the source IP address, and sends 
this request message through the Internet to the remote computer, which displays the Web 
page from www.example.com.
To configure port forwarding, you need to know which inbound ports the application needs. You 
usually can determine this information by contacting the publisher of the application or user 
groups or newsgroups.