Planet Technology Internet Telephony PBX System IPX-1900 User Manual

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L2TP Pass Through

L2TP (The Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol) is an emerging Internet Engineering

Task Force (IETF) standard that combines the best features of two

existing tunneling protocols: Cisco's Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F) and

Microsoft's Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP). L2TP is an

extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP), which is an important

component for VPNs. VPNs allow users and telecommuters to connect to

their corporate intranets or extranets. Enable/Disable this function.

SIP ALG

SIP, the Session Initiation Protocol, is a signaling protocol for Internet

conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification and instant

messaging. Enable/Disable this protocol verification.

DMZ

In computer networks, a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) is a computer host or

small network inserted as a "neutral zone" between a company's private

network and the outside public network. It prevents outside users from

getting direct access to a server that has company dIP-PBX. Think of DMZ

as the front yard of your house. It belongs to you and you may put some

things there, but you would put anything valuable inside the house where

it can be properly secured. Setting up a DMZ is very easy. If you have

multiple computer s, you can choose to simply place one of the computers

between the Internet connection and the firewall.

DMZ IP LAN

If you have a computer that cannot run Internet applications properly from

behind the device, then you can allow the computer to have unrestricted

Internet access. Enter the IP address of that computer as a DMZ host with

unrestricted Internet access. Adding a client to the DMZ may expose that

computer to a variety of security risks; so only use this option as a last

resort.

Table 4-6. NAT description

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Virtual Server Mapping

The device can be configured as a virtual server so that remote users accessing services such as Web

or FTP services via the public (WAN) IP address can be automatically redirected to local servers in the

LAN network. Depending on the requested service (TCP/UDP port number), the device redirects the

external service request to the appropriate server within the LAN network. You will only need to input

the LAN IP address of the computer running the service and enable it.

A Virtual Server is defined as a service port, and all requests to this port will be redirected to the

computer specified by the server IP.

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