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Tip

A network administrator can use the traceroute utility to manually analyze the connection path of a particular WAN

connection.

Bypassing the Firewall to Access Hosts on LAN

Scenario

There are times when remote access to computers on the LAN is desirable; for example, when hosting

web sites, online businesses, FTP download and upload areas, etc. In such cases, it may be appropriate

to create an inbound NAT mapping for the network to allow some hosts on the LAN to be accessible from

outside of the firewall.

Solution

The web admin interface can be used to add an inbound NAT mapping to a host and to bind the host to

the WAN connection(s) of your choice. To begin, navigate to Network>NAT Mappings.

In this example, the host with an IP address of 192.168.1.102 is bound to 10.90.0.75 of WAN1:

https://www.peplink.com

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