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IIRC, consumer wifi routers supposedly support a protocol that allows a computer to request a temporary port forward and release it when its finished using it.
by dabockster 9y ago
IIRC, consumer wifi routers supposedly support a protocol that allows a computer to request a temporary port forward and release it when its finished using it.
Anyone remember what that protocol is called?
- thrown_produce 9y agoUPnP, Universal Plug and Play.
- dabockster 9y agoYep, that's it. How useful is it in practice? I haven't ventured into those settings ever since I got my Airport Extreme.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- lenkite 9y agoPretty much every torrent software supports UPnP/NAT-PMP today. The problem was UPnP came a bit late - the spec was published only in 2008, and by that time everything was fire-walled off and required more-than-idiot-capability to expose.