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.
Before we can forward ports for BearShare, we need to figure out what ports BearShare is using. Here is a brief walkthrough on how to do that. Go ahead and open up BearShare.
Click Setup in the menu at the top of your screen. In the list that drops down click Connection.
On this page you should see a Listening Port for Incomming TCP and UDP Connections box. This box contains the port you need to forward to the computer you are running BearShare on. You can change this port number if you want to. Please enter the port you chose into the box below.
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 192.168.0.1.
You should see a box prompting you for your username and password. Enter your username and password now. By default the username is NOLOGIN, and the password is NOLOGIN. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.
Click the Advanced button at the left hand of your screen.
Click the Internet link to get to the Advanced Internet menu.
Click the Special Applications button to get to the Special Applications menu.
We will list a series of lines here that will show you exactly how to setup your router. BearShare requires you to forward the ports you entered above. Go ahead and enter the settings shown above into the Special Applications menu.
When you are finished adding these configurations, click the Save button at the bottom of your screen. Be sure to save your settings and reboot your router before these changes take effect. And that's it! You are done!
