Free Port Forwarding Guides & PFConfig: Forward Your Ports Automatically

Port Triggering the Belkin F5D5231-4

What is Port Triggering?

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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.

Trigger Port:
Trigger Protocol:


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 blank. Click the Ok button to log in to your router.



On the left hand side you will see a series of four menus. In the one titled firewall click Application Gateways. This will bring you to the following menu.



The application gateways window gives you two selections to choose from. You can select a popular application from the drop down box, or you can manually enter the port triggering information specified by your software.

Click the Popular Applications drop down box to see the list of popular applications. If you see the one you want click it, and then click the Add button. You should see a new row of settings in the table below. If you are done configuring triggers then go ahead and click the Apply Changes button.

To setup port triggering manually, first you need to obtain the relevant port triggering information from the software manufacturer. Put the Trigger start port in the Trigger start port box. Enter the Trigger end port in the trigger end port box. If the start port and the end port are the same, just enter the same number in both boxes. Select the trigger type from the drop down box, if you are unsure just select both. Enter a list or range of public ports in the Public port box. A list looks like 500,502,560 while a range looks like 500-600. You can also specify a combination of lists and ranges 500,502,600-700. Go ahead and select the public protocol type from the Public type drop down box. Once again if you are unsure just select both. To enable this configuration click the Enable check box.

When you are done specifying port triggering configurations click apply to save your changes.

Well thats pretty much it.. You are done!


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