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UPnP enabled or disabled?
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<blockquote data-quote="blackice" data-source="post: 1011009" data-attributes="member: 79035"><p>Enabled. It depends on the router manufacturer’s firmware. For example ASUS uses miniUPnPd which never exposed UPnP to the WAN side. Which is how it was always supposed to be. If it is only exposed on the LAN then it is just as safe as the devices on your LAN. Security of LAN devices is outside of the scope of UPnP, and most people are at higher risk of other issues as long as it isn’t exposed to the WAN side. Looking at my routing tables the only things I ever see open up a port are games. I’d rather have games open up ports and then have them close automatically than mess with a bunch of port forwarding which leaves them open constantly. Honestly there’s a bunch of panic because there are bad implementations of UPnP. But a lot of the advice on router security.org and GRC is old or a bit paranoid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackice, post: 1011009, member: 79035"] Enabled. It depends on the router manufacturer’s firmware. For example ASUS uses miniUPnPd which never exposed UPnP to the WAN side. Which is how it was always supposed to be. If it is only exposed on the LAN then it is just as safe as the devices on your LAN. Security of LAN devices is outside of the scope of UPnP, and most people are at higher risk of other issues as long as it isn’t exposed to the WAN side. Looking at my routing tables the only things I ever see open up a port are games. I’d rather have games open up ports and then have them close automatically than mess with a bunch of port forwarding which leaves them open constantly. Honestly there’s a bunch of panic because there are bad implementations of UPnP. But a lot of the advice on router security.org and GRC is old or a bit paranoid. [/QUOTE]
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