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What is Local IP and Remote IP in Port Forwarding?

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What is Local IP and Remote IP in Port Forwarding?

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Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 1 year ago

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I’m trying to setup port forwarding and I’m not sure what these are, please give some insights.

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For home routers with just one external ip address, remote address makes no sense, but if you have 10 public it’s then the Nat requires from what public ip you want to do the Nat a.k.a. remote address

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