I've heard it a bit. Personally, I've never had a problem when my Xbox would list my NAT as "strict". But I've heard people scream about it. You can either port forward to them, Or enable UPnP and it will do it for you. If your double NAT-ing then you will need to do it on both routers as UPnP will only cover the one closest to the Xbox. And if they have multiple xbox consoles you can only port forward to one, Or give them multiple statics. Just my experiences with it...
Nick Olsen Network Operations (321) 205-1100 x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Kurt Fankhauser" <k...@wavelinc.com> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:11 AM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP So does anyone here have any customers that use XBOX live and bark to you about you NAT? Apparently the XBOX live service is very picky about being behind any NAT device and its ability to make connections to other servers. From what I gathered is that the LIVE service uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to get around this but the question I have is. If your doing masquerade on a Mikrotik Core Router should you enable UPnP on that device? Or should I just issue public IP's to the customer that games and let them worry about it? And if you have UPnP enabled on the core router and then do a double-NAT through the customers Linksys router with UPnP enable does that not work because of the double-NAT? Kurt Fankhauser WAVELINC P.O. Box 126 Bucyrus, OH 44820 419-562-6405 www.wavelinc.com
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