Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically

Configuring the Port Trigger Application

This guide allows you to use our Port Trigger application along with the port triggering section of your router to forward ports.

Open up the Port Trigger application, and click New button to configure a new rule.

Put a name of the program you are forwarding ports for in to the Application Name box. It doesn't really matter what you put into this box, but something that will remind you why this configuration is here would be a good idea. Click the Autoset button to get an external ip address. Alternatively you can enter any ip address that is outside of your network, in to the Target Address box. Enter the trigger port to use into the Trigger Port box. Once again it doesn't really matter what port you use here. You can pick any random port to put into the Trigger Port box, or just leave at it's default setting. Select the protocol to use by clicking the UDP/TCP radio buttons. Once again it doesn't really matter what protocol you select, but you do need to remember which one you chose. Later on in this guide, we will be entering the selections you chose here into your router. The Delay box tells the Port Trigger application how often to send the packets. If you have problems, like the ports not being forwarded all the time, you should decrease the number in the delay box.

I need you to fill in the boxes below, with the values you entered into the Port Trigger application. Entering the requested values will allow this guide to show you exactly how to configure your router.

Configuring your Router to work with Port Trigger.

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 192.168.2.1.

You should prompted for your password. Enter your password now. By default the password is admin. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.

In the menu on the left hand side of your screen, click the Firewall link.

In the new menu that dropped down under firewall, click the Special Applications link.

You really have two options in this window. The first is to use the Popular Applications drop down box at the bottom of your screen. Go ahead and click the down arrow in this box. You should see a list of applications. If you see the one you want to forward click it. Then select an ID to copy the configuration to using the drop down box to the right of the copy to button. Then click the Copy To button. You should see a new profile in the table below.

If you are unsure of the port range/ranges check the Ports list page or the software manufacture's homepage. Enter the trigger port into the Trigger Port radial buttons. Select the trigger type using the Trigger Type box. If you need both protocol types, create a duplicate configuration on a separate line. One configuration would have TCP selected the other would have UDP selected. Enter the public ports into the Public Ports box. These ports can be entered in a list 45,50,59, a range 500-600, or a combination of both 45,50,500-600. The public ports are the ports where data will be coming into your computer from the internet. Select the public port type using the Public Type radial buttons. Put a check in the Enable checkbox. Click the Save or Apply button at the bottom of this screen to save your configuration.

It's important to note that there is no ip address listed in this configuration. This means that any computer on your network can use it. Though any computer can use this configuration they may only use it one at a time.

At the bottom of this menu click the Save or the Apply button.

And that's it! You're done!