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In this document, we are going to guide you through with the port forwarding configuration using the port forwarding tab.

You can find the port forwarding tab under Firewall -> Policies -> Port Forwarding To configure port forwarding, follow these steps below:

1. Go to Firewall -> Policies -> Port Forwarding and click on icon.

1. Select the IP version to proceed with to add port forwarding for.

1. The following screen appears:

The following information is required to add IPv4/IPv6 Port Forwarding:

• External IP: This field specifies the IPv4/IPv6 address on which external users will access the local LAN/DMZ server.

• Internal IP: This field specifies the IPv4/IPv6 address of the server present in the LAN/DMZ network.

• Service: You can select the appropriate service/service group based on the ports required to allow access of that particular server.

• Service NAT (Optional): This field is optional. You can do the port NAT to map external service (port) selected above for external users to service NAT port on which local LAN/DMZ server listens.
• Description Name (Optional) : This field is optional. You can provide a description for newly created port forwarding policy here if required.

• Enable LoopBack NAT Option : If you want to access the device in the LAN network from the same LAN network using external IP, then click on this button. As shown below.

• Local Network Interface (From which LoopBack NAT needs to be enabled): Select the interface on which the server is connected.

After creating port forwarding rule, you can see the screen as shown below:

After adding Port Forwarding policy, click on install policy (Firewall -> Policies -> Install Policies) to apply port forwarding policy.

You have successfully configured Port Forwarding using the port forwarding tab.

Attached Files:
How_toconfigure_port_forwarding_using_the_port_forwarding_tab.pdf