Port Forwarding Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol on the Netgear FVS114

What is Port Forwarding?

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To setup port forwarding on this router your computer needs to have a static ip address.
Try our free PF Setup Static IP Address Program which will setup a static ip address for you.

Or you can take alook at our Static IP Address guide to setup a static ip address. When you are finished setting up a static ip address, please come back to this page and enter the ip address you setup in the Static IP Address box below.

Do not skip this step!

Open a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. Enter the internal IP address of your router in the address bar of your browser. If you do not know your routers internal IP address please read our How To Find Your Routers IP Address guide.

In the picture above the address bar has http://www.google.com in it. Just replace all of that with the internal IP address of your router. By default the IP address should be set to 192.168.0.1.

You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default the username is admin, and the password is password. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

Please visit our Default Router Passwords page if the username and password shown above did not work for you.

We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to forward the ports you need to forward. Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol requires you to forward the following ports: 1723. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Virtual Server menu.

Click Services in the menu on the left side of the screen.


Click Add Custom Service.


Enter a name for the program you are forwarding ports for into the Name box. If you are forwarding a single port, enter that number into theStart Port and End Port boxes. If you are forwarding a range of ports, enter the lowest number of that range into the Start Portbox. Then enter the highest number of that range into the Finish Port box. Leave the protocol type set to TCP/UDP.When you are finished, click Apply. Now, click Rules in the menu on the left side of the screen.


Click Add in the Outbound or Inbound Services section. If you are unsure whether the program you are using will use these ports for inboundor outbound, repeat the process for both Inbound and Outbound.


Select the service you previously made using the Service drop down box. Set Action to ALLOW always. Enter the IP address you want toforward these ports to in the Send to LAN Server boxes. If you are forwarding ports so you can run a program on your computer, you should enteryour computer's IP address into the Send to LAN Server boxes. WAN Users should be set to Any, unless you want to limit who can connectto these ports. This would be useful if, lets say, you only wanted your office computer to be able to FTP into your home computer. In that case youwould put your office computer's IP address into both the start and finish boxes. Generally Log should be set to never, unless of course you want to create a log of network activity. When you are finished, click Apply.

And that is it! You are done!

To test if your port has been properly forwarded, you can use our Port Checker tool.

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