I do and only do manual port forwarding.

Greg

On Aug 2, 2010, at 1:51 PM, RickG wrote:

> So, do you turn off UPnP or not?
> 
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Greg Ihnen <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've heard (I think it was on a Security Now podcast) that UPnP opens up big 
>> security hole for the end user (your customers) because there are trojans 
>> that use UPnP to poke a hole in the router and then it phones home with the 
>> IP address and port it opened. If that compromised machine starts running 
>> amok on your network then it would be a problem for you.
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
>> 
>>> Man that sucks.  We turn off upnp on ALL routers.  I've always been told
>>> that it's a big security hole.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts on that?
>>> marlon
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Josh Luthman" <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>
>>> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 7:29 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't seem to have any issues with double or triple NAT.
>>> 
>>> When I was working with MT to fix the upnp issue with Xboxes. I have
>>> it marked as 4.6 with modifications (it was an unofficial 4.6 they
>>> gave me) so I would say 4.7 or higher should enable Xbox upnp.  Even
>>> this requires a public IP on the Mikrotik to remove even nice strict
>>> (I think it's called open?).
>>> 
>>> Josh Luthman
>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>> Suite 1337
>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Kurt Fankhauser <k...@wavelinc.com> wrote:
>>>> 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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