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Port Forwarding: The port forwarding allows you to automatically redirect common network services

to a specific machine behind the NAT firewall. These settings ne are only necessary if you wish to host

some sort of server like a web server or mail server on the private local network behind WNAP-6300’s

NAT firewall.

Figure 23 Port Forwarding

DMZ: A Demilitarized Zone is used to provide Internet services without sacrificing unauthorized access

to its local private network. Typically, the DMZ host contains devices accessible to the Internet traffic,

such as Web (HTTP) servers, FTP servers, SMTP (e-mail) servers and DNS servers.

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