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Commonly used advanced features, 1) how to setup encryption, 2) setting up a virtual server in your lan – Asus WL-566GM User Manual

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4. Commonly used advanced features

The following pages are setup examples of commonly used advanced features.

You can setup these features via a web browser.

1) How to setup encryption

WL-566gM encryption setup

Please refer to Page 9-11 for encryption setup information or to use ASUS EZSetup features

which enable a quick encryption setup through several mouse clicks (Chapter 6).

2) Setting up a virtual server in your LAN

Virtual Server is a kind of technology which enables a computer within a local area network

(LAN) to receive specialized packets from network, for example, when you need to make a

host into an FTP server or Web server for outside user to access. Virtual DMZ is quite similar

to Virtual Server, but it allows all incoming data packets instead of using policy to filter the

packets.

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Click

Virtual Server in NAT Setting folder to open the NAT

configuration page.

Select

Yes to enable virtual

server. For example, if host

192.168.1.100 need to be

set to FTP server (Virtual

server) which is accessible by

outside user, we shall direct

all incoming packets with 21

as the destination ports to the

host. Therefore, FTP access

request from outside users are

forwarded to the host.

Click

Finish.

Click

Save & Restart to restart

the wireless router and activate

the settings.