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Anyone know how necessary UPnP is? From what I can tell, this setup does not run UPnP for automatic port forwarding
by rashkov 6mo ago
Anyone know how necessary UPnP is? From what I can tell, this setup does not run UPnP for automatic port forwarding
- YouAreWRONGtoo 6mo ago[dead]
- pak9rabid 6mo agoYou'd need to run a daemon like miniupnpd to enable UPnP, however I'd avoid it if you can, as it can be a significant security risk.
- drnick1 6mo agoNot necessarily at all and a huge security risk.
- simoncion 6mo agoIt's quite useful, but -like just about everything- not necessary. Run it in what miniupnpd calls "secure mode" (which prevents clients from adding rules for IPs they can't talk from), put the daemons's rules after your manually-managed ones and -because of today's world of NAT hole-punching and "just tunnel it over HTTPS, it's the universal firewall bypass protocol" techniques- you're exactly as secure as if you had it off.