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--- en:games:port_forwarding [2021-05-14-13-18] – created 7saturn
+++ en:network_terms:port_forwarding [2022-04-01-23-39] – ↷ Page moved from en:games:network_terms:port_forwarding to en:network_terms:port_forwarding 7saturn
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 When making use of a usual SoHo router (like most ISPs give to their customers) and using IPv4 addresses, hosting services behind the router requires to bypass the routers NAT. By default, this is not possible. Port forwarding is kind of punching holes into that mechanism. You configure your router to always relay packages arriving at a certain port on the internet side to be forwarded to another computer on the local network, to a specific port. This can also be a list of ports being forwarded to a list of other ports. There is a distinction between [[TCP]] and [[UDP]] packages, too. Don't mix them up. The outside port and the inside port do not necessarily have to be the same. So the public port 8080 may in fact point to a local computer's port 80.
-This mechanism is also sometimes names unblocking ports on the router, and also (falsely) unblocking this port on the routers [[firewall]].
+This mechanism is also sometimes named simply as forwarding or unblocking ports on the router, or (falsely) unblocking this port on the routers [[firewall]]. (Most SoHo routers don't have any firewall.)
 ===== See also =====
-  *  [[Network Address Translation|NAT]]
+  * [[Network Address Translation|NAT]]
+  * [[Firewall]]
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