Question : opening ports on cisco routers

Hello,

Hopefully one of you experts can aid me in my struggle  :)

we are running CA Etrust AV ver 7.0 on our clients (gag).  We also have an Etrust admin server (double gag) on our network that is supposed to distribute signature updates to all of the clients running the AV software.  Here is the problem......we have multiple locations each in there own subnet.....by default this configuration does not allow us to use the "Free Election" method of discovery for discovering our subnets and distributing the signatures her is CA's definition of how free election is supposed to work:
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Free Election is the default election method. With this method, you do not need to know about the configuration of the machines being discovered within the subnet. The Admin Server sends an IP-directed broadcast to the subnet. This forces an election between machines running the Computer Associates antivirus software. The winner of this election responds to the Admin Server with the list of machines within the subnet. If the Admin Server is not located in the subnet being discovered, it is possible for the IP-directed broadcast to be blocked by a network hardware component. If this is the case, you must reconfigure the network hardware so that the discovery port is open.

This option does not require that you have the Computer Associates antivirus software installed on the machine specified in the IP address option on the Subnet tab. However, if the antivirus software is running on the specified machine, you can use the Test button to check if IP-directed broadcasts are being blocked
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  Anyone running Etrust can feel my pain I am sure, as it is not an intuituve interface at all and is annoying as crap to figure out how to do anything in this program (end rant)

so basically what i need is to enable IP broadcast on all of our routers, but I'm not super profficient on cisco IOS.  Can anyone inform on the right way to open ports: 42508, 42509, and 42510 on my routers.  they are Cisco 3600 and 2600 series respectively.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Answer : opening ports on cisco routers

I feel your pain....

Try adding this on each router:
   ip forward-protocol udp 42508
   ip forward-protocol udp 42509
   ip forward-protocol udp 42510