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Network - Router Port Forwarding
You will need to enable port forwarding on your Router to allow for external communications
with your System for ports:
• TCP/IP PORT 6100
• WEB PORT 80
Computers, Systems, and other devices inside your network can only communicate directly
with each other within the internal network. Computers and systems outside your network
cannot directly communicate with these devices. When a system on the internal network
needs to send or receive information from a system outside the network (i.e. from the
Internet), the information is sent through the modem to the Router.
You may experience difficulties with Port Forwarding if:
• You have several routers connected together and your system is connected to the
last one.
• You are in an environment with either an additional software or hardware firewall.
• Your modem is a combination Router/Modem such as a Slipstream, WesTell, Netopia,
ActionTec, 2Wire, SMC or another model.
In these situations, we recommend that you contact a local technician for assistance.
NETWORK EXAMPLE
When a computer on the Internet needs to send data to your internal network, it sends this
data to the external IP address of the Router. The Router then needs to decide where this
data is to be sent to. This is where setting up Port Forwarding becomes important. Port
Forwarding tells the router which device on the internal network to send the data to. When
you set up port forwarding on your Router, it takes the data from the external IP
address:port number and sends that data to an internal IP address:port number (i.e Router
External IP 216.13.154.34:6100 to System Internal IP 192.168.0.3:6100).
The instructions found online in the Router Configuration Guide will assist you in the port
forwarding configurations for a selection of different router models.
Visit our Consumer Guides Support website at http://www.lorexcctv.com/support
for details