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Advanced Settings

N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4500

6. Click Add Service to display the following screen:

7. In the Service Name field, type a descriptive service name.

8. In the Service User list, select Any (the default) to allow this service to be used by any

computer on the Internet. Otherwise, select Single address, and enter the IP address of

one computer to restrict the service to a particular computer.

9. Select the service type, either TCP or UDP or both (TCP/UDP). If you are not sure, select

TCP/UDP.

10. In the Triggering Port field, enter the number of the outbound traffic port that will cause the

inbound ports to be opened.

11. Enter the inbound connection port information in the Connection Type, Starting Port, and

Ending Port fields.

12. Click Apply. The service appears in the Port Triggering Portmap table.

Dynamic DNS

If your Internet service provider (ISP) gave you a permanently assigned IP address, you can

Name Servers (DNS). However, if your Internet account uses a dynamically assigned IP

address, you do not know in advance what your IP address will be, and the address can

change frequently. In this case, you can use a commercial Dynamic DNS service. This type

of service lets you register your domain to their IP address and forwards traffic directed at

your domain to your frequently changing IP address.

If your ISP assigns a private WAN IP address (such as 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x), the Dynamic

DNS service will not work because private addresses are not routed on the Internet.

Your router contains a client that can connect to the Dynamic DNS service provided by

DynDNS.org. First visit their website at http://www.dyndns.org and obtain an account and

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