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we have a Netgear router which is our route to the big wide world . From the router we have an external NIC and an internal NIC . We are trying to port forward from the router to a fixed IP pc . How easy is this to do and how do you do it ?
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we have a Netgear router which is our route to the big wide world . From the router we have an external NIC and an internal NIC . We are trying to port forward from the router to a fixed IP pc . How easy is this to do and how do you do it ?

Port forwarding to a pc

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.