Operation Manual

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Port Forwarding: Making Computers Accessible from the Internet
Configuring Port Forwarding in the FRITZ!Box
• IPv4:
– Port forwarding is configured in the “Internet / Per-
mit Access” menu, on the “Port Forwarding” page.
• IPv6:
– Enable the advanced view.
– Port forwarding is set up in the “Internet / Permit Ac-
cess” menu, on the “IPv6” page.
Determining the IPv4 Address for Accessing the FRITZ!Box
If you have enabled ports for forwarding in the FRITZ!Box, oth-
er Internet users can access your computers at the IP address
assigned to your FRITZ!Box by the Internet service provider.
This is a public IPv4 address.
Here is how to determine the public IPv4 address of the
FRITZ!Box:
1. Open any Internet page in order to establish an Internet
connection.
ESP
GRE
IPv4:
Within IPv4 networks you can open the firewall
for the two protocols ESP and GRE, which do not
use ports.
Exposed host
(Open firewall
completely)
IPv4:
Within IPv4 networks you can open the firewall
completely for one computer. This computer is
then no longer protected by the FRITZ!Box fire-
wall. If individual ports are already open for other
computers, then data packets for these ports are
not forwarded to the exposed host, but to the
other computer instead.
IPv6:
Within IPv6 networks you can open the firewall
completely for each computer. These computers
are then no longer protected by the FRITZ!Box
firewall.