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 192.168.123.254.

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.

There is a series of buttons at the top of your screen. In this series of buttons click the Security button.

Scroll down to the Popular Applications section. This is where we will configure port triggering. Pick an empty line to enter a new configuration. Enter the trigger port into the Trigger Port box. The trigger port is the port that data will be leaving your computer on. For port range/ranges information check the Ports list page or the software manufacture's homepage. Go ahead and enter the incoming ports into the Incoming Port box. These ports can be entered as a list like 43,46,59, a range like 500-600, or a combination of both like 43,46,500-600. Put a check in the Enable box to enable this configuration.

Click the Save button at the bottom of this section to save this configuration.

Click the status button at the top of your screen. This will bring you to the status menu.

Close to the bottom of this page click the Restart Router button.

And that's it! You're done!