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Are virtual servers and port forwarding the same thing?

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Mar 15, 202650830 views
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Are virtual servers and port forwarding the same thing? I always thought so but my Dlink DIR-655 has both. The only thing I can see with port forwarding is the ability to do ranges whereas virtual servers allow you to forward single external port to a different numbered port on an internal machine.…

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Some routers - eg: D-Link's - use the term 'virtual server' for port forwarding where you can divert specific WAN ports to local machines with translation of port numbers. Example: WAN (public IP) Port 9422 -> Local machine 192.168.0.1 port 22 In th…

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