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Disabling UPnP doesn't break much. I've used enterprise firewalls at home for years, none of them have UPnP, I've never noticed a problem arising from that lack
by kunwon1 4y ago
Disabling UPnP doesn't break much. I've used enterprise firewalls at home for years, none of them have UPnP, I've never noticed a problem arising from that lack. I don't have a problem with video games or collaboration tools
UPnP allows devices inside your network to open ports to the outside world without your knowledge. I think everyone should avoid it if they can get by without it
- d2wa 4y agoIt’s absolutely required for most multiplayer games. Many need random ports and some even refuse to work if UPnP is blocked even if you manually open a port for them.
- aaronmdjones 4y agoI've never had UPnP enabled and I don't have any problems doing online gaming / flight sim / video chatting / etc.
- emikulic 4y agoSame. I've found the biggest problem was SNAT rewriting the (source) port number. netfilter, by default, doesn't do this. pf does but you can configure it not to.
- Zizizizz 4y agoOn series X you can set up port forwarding really easily. I had to do it for openwrt
- malfist 4y agoWhat's your solution for the grandmother who just wants to make a zoom call to her grandson? Have her log into her router portal and setup a static ip for her laptop and then port forwarding routes for zoom?
- Karrot_Kream 4y agoSTUN servers? Also, while I (not GP) do think UPnP is dangerous, I also think it's only something you disable if you know you can live without.
- thayne 4y agoI don't think zoom uses UPnP. If it did, that would cause problems on corporate networks that typically have UPnP disabled.