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Sign in. Forum Blog Browse. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. Posts: 2. Go to advanced settings-firewall- port forwarding and put TCP as to save- its there.

Any ideas or help appreciated. Thanks chris. Message 1 of 4. Reply 0 Thanks. Thanks, you' ve been most helpful. One last question I hope! When I' m setting up the static nat, am I using the external interface or the internal? And when you talk about putting in the external IP are you talking about my external IP address?

I do have several, and have set up 2 VIPs, one for a mail server and one for a web server. I have 5 static IPs plus an additional IP for the cable modem and have mapped 2 of them.

Another of them seems to be assigned to the Fortigate. In other words the scheme is this: xxx. Are you talking about. As you can see, I' m still a little confused Your help is much appreciated Well any.

But for setting up a static nat you need a ' free' IP. So you can use. Got it. Sorry to be such a dunce I know the destination ports are Expert Member. The source is the range you specified. Good luck. Much appreciated In a strict sense, you could reuse IP addresses for different devices, as long as the ports are different. My email and web services from the outside world point to the same address, but hit two different servers once on the inside. If you have limited IPs, this may be your way out.

Strictly you may be right Bob. But there is a difference between static nat and port forwarding. Your solution will work as they are TCP sessions. I looked at the Administrative Guide for my Fortigate 60 as well as the manual for the current version of the OS and couldn' t find anything. What am I missing? I found it in the CLI reference. I' m a little surprised that the gui interface doesn' t include all of the functionality but it is what it is Thanks again, Kenny.

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Depending on circumstances, your router totally blocks some kinds of network traffic, while allowing others. Your router can also allow data to flow selectively by using ports , which are like virtual gates inside your router.

Ports allow network traffic to stream to one particular device on the network. They're specified by number for example, normal web traffic uses port When data arrives from the Internet addressed to a particular port, your router sends the data to the appropriate device on your network, based on the port number.