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Port Forwarding for the 2Wire 1000HW


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Before we can forward ports for Ares, we need to figure out what ports ares is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that.



Open up Ares. Then click the Control Panel icon in the toolbar at the top of your screen.



You should see a bunch of tabs close to the top of this window. One of these tabs should be labeled Transfer. Go ahead and click it now.



Enter the port you want Ares to use into the Accept incoming connections on port box. By default this port is set to 1157. You can change it to whatever you like, or leave it set to 1157.

Please enter the port you chose for Ares below.

Ares' Port




Open a web browser like internet explorer or Netscape. Enter the ip address of your router in the address bar of your browser. In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the ip address of your router. By default the ip address should be set to 172.16.0.1.




Click the Firewall button.


Click the Firewall Settings button.


Use the Select a computer box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network. Click the Add a new user-defined application link.


  Application Name:  
  Protocol: TCP UDP   
  Port (or Range): From: To:   
  Protocol Timeout (seconds): TCP default=86400
UDP default=600		   
  Map to Host Port: Default= the same port as
defined above		   

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Ares requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Edit Application menu and then click Add Definition.

Click the Back button.


Select the applications you just created in the Applications list, then click the Add button to move them to the Hosted Applications box.

When you are finished, click the Done button at the bottom of your screen.

And that is it! You are done!