Port Forwarding

what is port forwarding? port forwarding is a technique used to direct specific types of internet traffic to a particular device when you enable port forwarding on your instance , you’re telling the server to send data coming in on a certain port to a specific internal ip address or service this is often used for services like web servers, or remote desktop connections, allowing external devices to connect to your server through a designated port port forwarding is useful for accessing services on your instance remotely and can be configured to enhance security by limiting which ports are open for communication accessing the port forwarding settings there are two ways to access the port forwarding settings option 1 via the network menu from the portal navigate to the networks menu click on the public ip address tab and locate your instance's assigned ip address click on port forwarding option 2 via vm settings from the portal navigate to the instances menu select the instance you want to make the changes from there, locate the vm settings tab click on the port forwarding tab from the side panel, which will show the assigned public ip of the vm click on manage and then on port forwarding overview the of port forward rules once you access the public ip management of your instance , you will now see the current port forward rules applied adding port forwarding rules click the add rule button located in the top right corner of the port forwarding tab a form will appear, allowing you to configure a new port forwarding rule private port specify the private port range that the vm will listen to public port define the public port that will be mapped to the private port on your vm protocol choose the appropriate protocol (tcp or udp) based on your application's requirements select vm choose the vm to which the traffic will be forwarded after entering the required information, click save to apply the rule the new rule will appear in the list of port forward rules by following these steps, you can manage port forwarding rules for your vm, allowing external traffic to access services hosted on your vm