On 6/14/05, Mike Branda <mike@wackyworld.tv> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:19 -0600, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > >
> > > If it's a hardware router it may be possible to turn off UPnP. I've
> > > read a couple of articles about it. Google it's model number or post it
> > > here to see if we can find a way to disable it.
> > >
> >
> > Yea, it is the router, both of the buggers generate it. I had a LinkSys
> > Network everywhere in there and pulled it out and replaced it with a
> > LinkSys BEFSR41 V3, and it is just as bad if not worse.
> >
> > I guess that stuff is great if you can use it for something, but so far
> > all I see is that crap klobbering my network...
> >
> >
>
> Chuck,
>
> According to the BEFSR41V3 Manual at:
>
> ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pdf/befsr41V3_ug.pdf
>
>
> Page 33 of the PDF (page 27 of the manual) un-check all UPnP forwarding
Uhh, I was using that to forward those ports to machines that were using
them. Guess I will have to use another mechanisim.
>
> Page 36 of the PDF (page 30 of the manual) set UPnP to Disabled
>
>
> And make sure you save your changes.
>
>
> Then make sure you have run the Gibson UPnP disabler on any Windows
> Boxes you have on your network just in case the router is doing
> something as a result of them doing a multicast.
>
>
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
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