An administrator in the office must conned to a server at home. Which of the following home router settings will the administrator MOST likely configure to accomplish this?

Question

Options

• APort forwarding
• BFirewall settings
• CSSID broadcasting
• DMAC filtering

• A
  93% (54)
• B
  3% (2)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Port forwarding (also called destination NAT) instructs the home router to redirect incoming connection requests on a specific port from the internet to a designated internal device (the home server). Without port forwarding, the router has no way to know which internal device should receive an unsolicited inbound connection, so it drops the traffic. Firewall settings (B) control what traffic is permitted, but the router's NAT table still needs port forwarding configured to direct the traffic correctly - firewall rules alone are insufficient. SSID broadcasting (C) is a wireless network name visibility setting with no effect on remote server access. MAC filtering (D) restricts which wireless devices can join the local network and has no relevance to enabling inbound remote connections from outside the network.

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