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- Plain VanillaLv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Port forwarding allows remote computers (for example, computers on the Internet) to connect to a specific computer or service within a private local-area network
You may have a private network of maybe 5 computers. One of your computers may be hosting a website on port 8080. The request to this server comes to the static IP assigned to you by your ISP but the request is also sent to a certain port on that IP (for eg: http://72.1.1.3:8080). Your router to which all your computers are connected can be programmed to forward all port 8080 traffic to the server on your internal network that is hosting the website.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forwarding
