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 192.168.62.1.

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.

Click the Advanced link at the top right hand side of your screen.

Click the Filters link at the top of your screen.

The page above lets you allow traffic into and out of your router. We need to add the ports you are going to forward to this page. Use the Filtering Layer drop down box to select Port Filtering. The Proto Num box should be grayed out, so we will not enter anything in it. Use the Direction drop down box to select Both. Enter the port range to allow into the Private Port Range box. The lowest port number in the range should go into the box on the left. The highest port number in the range should go into the box on the right. If you only plan on forwarding one port enter that port number into both of these boxes. If you are unsure of the port range/ranges check the Ports list page or the software manufacture's homepage. Use the Protocol drop down box to select the port protocol. If you are unsure of the protocol used by the program you are forwarding ports for select Both. When you are finished adding ports, click the Apply button at the bottom of the page. Go ahead and click the Special Apps button at the top of your screen.

Use the protocol drop down box to select the protocol used by the trigger and incoming ports. If you are unsure of the protocol type select Both. Enter the trigger port range into the Trigger Port Range box. The lowest port number in the range should go into the box on the left hand side. The highest port number in the range should go into the box on the right hand side. If there is only one trigger port associated with that program, then enter that trigger port number into both boxes. You may notice that there are not incoming ports specified on this page. I have a feeling that when the trigger port is active, your port triggering configuration allows any data trying to come into your network in. Keep that in mind while using port triggering with this router. Put 30000 into the Maximum Activity Interval box. Set session chaining to disabled. The Address Replacement drop down box should also be set to disable. Also disable the Only Two Way drop down box.

When you are finished configuring the router, click the Apply button at the bottom of page to save your settings.

And that's it! You're done!