In a separate thread, I asked whether it was possible to do "hairpinning" with the Netgear 7550. This is where a client inside the LAN can access services published by port forwarding via the external, WAN address.
Most home routers support this behavior. This is useful because mobile devices can use the same URLs to access these services whether at home or on the road.
I was looking at the routing table in the 7550 advanced settings. I suspect that I just need to add a single entry that routes to the WAN port, but I haven't been able to find any syntax documentation or practical examples of how to use this feature.
The Netgear 7550 is just a rebranded Westell 7500. Routing table configuration has been available on Westell routers since forever. Has anybody ever used it? I've Googled the daylights out of this (crickets) -- nothing.
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