“Most of the cases where you need to use port forwarding involve
directing incoming requests from the Internet to a particular
machine inside your LAN. And in most of these cases, that means
you’re running a server inside your LAN, such as a Web
server.“In the case of running a Web server, incoming requests will hit
the router asking for port 80. You need the router to forward these
requests to the internal IP address of your server.”
How to: Set Up Port Forwarding with Tomato
By
Aaron Weiss
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