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may be looks simple ------- Is the host ip you mentioned in the rule is correct?
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may be looks simple ------- Is the host ip you mentioned in the rule is correct?

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Thanks for the feedback and trouble shooting suggestions as it got me to issue. &nbsp;My workstation has two NICs for testing. &nbsp;My requests for the web site external address where coming from the internal which caused the router to kick in. Once I disconnected -- everything is working. Silly mistake.
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Thanks for the feedback and trouble shooting suggestions as it got me to issue.  My workstation has two NICs for testing.  My requests for the web site external address where coming from the internal which caused the router to kick in. Once I disconnected -- everything is working. Silly mistake.

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The server gateway is the router's internal IP? &nbsp;suggestion leads to identify the issue?<br />
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However I am happy to know your issue is reserved
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The server gateway is the router's internal IP?  suggestion leads to identify the issue?

However I am happy to know your issue is reserved

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I have a Netgear FVS318N device. &nbsp;I am trying to setup a fire wall rule that sends http traffic to an internal web server.<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/09_w36/674826/Capture01.GIF" target="_blank" title="Firewall Settings (62 KB)"><img alt="Firewall Settings" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 426px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2013/09_w36/674826/Capture01.GIF" /></a>When I attempt to access the site from the outside world, it doesn't forward the request to web server. &nbsp;The router management pages comes up instead. &nbsp;It sounds like I am missing a simple setting.
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I have a Netgear FVS318N device.  I am trying to setup a fire wall rule that sends http traffic to an internal web server.

When I attempt to access the site from the outside world, it doesn't forward the request to web server.  The router management pages comes up instead.  It sounds like I am missing a simple setting.

Firewall Rule Not being Used

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.

Hardware Firewalls

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.