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What does the author mean that the NAS punched a hole through the firewall? They say it several times. Do they mean enabled port forwarding on the router? If s
by Hnrobert42 6y ago
What does the author mean that the NAS punched a hole through the firewall? They say it several times. Do they mean enabled port forwarding on the router? If so, that seems like a router issue.
- tyingq 6y agoWelcome to uPnP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
- rovr138 6y agoUPnP is added to the NAS that allows it to request ports to be open and mapped. There is software needed on the router side too to make it work. They don’t want to disable this. This is covered in the article.
- IceWreck 6y agoRouters have this thing called universal plug and play which enables applications to enable port forwarding on their own without the user having to dive into router firewall settings.