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 192.168.10.1.

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

Click Routing in the top menu. This should bring you to the screen below.

Enter the trigger port into the Outgoing port boxes. If you have a range of trigger ports, enter the lowest number of that range into the Outgoing Port Start box. Then put the highest trigger port number into the Outgoing Port End box. You can think of the trigger ports as a on off switch for the Inbound Ports. When there is data flowing out of the trigger ports, the Inbound ports are on or forwarded. When there is no data flowing on the trigger ports the Inbound ports are off or not forwarded. Use the Outbound Protocol box to specify the protocol type of the trigger ports. If you want to forward a single port, enter that port number into the Inbound Port Start, Inbound Port End, To Port Start, and To Port End boxes. If you want to forward a range of ports, you should enter the lowest number of that range into the Inbound Port Start, and To Port End boxes. Then enter the highest number of the range to forward into the Inbound Port End and To Port End boxes. Use the Inbound Protocol box to select the protocol type of the forwarded ports. Put a checkmark into the Enabled checkbox to enable that configuration.

When you are finished making changes click the Apply button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

And that's it! You're done!