>here's this amazing protocol that makes port forwarding work automatically and solves the pain of having to do it manually on your router's shitty web interface every time you want to open a port>but you should never turn it on because it's insecureFuck off, UPnP is the greatest thing to ever happen to networking and I enable it on every router I buy.
>>109223677i thought it was on by default for most routers. at least mine did.
good thing that with ipv6 you can just doufw allow portand port is opened
>>109223706ipv4 allows opening ports too
>Enable uPnP for my torrent client>Peers often can't connect to me, dogshit throughput>Manually forward the port, disable uPnP>Works flawlessly, great speedsMeh. If it worked consistently it'd be great. Shame it doesn't.
>>109224637sorry that happened
>>109223677>the pain of having to do it manuallyIf entering 2 numbers in a box is too "painful" for you, you should probably stay away from computers altogether.
>>109223677UPnP is pretty standard it’s usually on for a home network
>>109223724you still need to forward a port if you are behind a nat
>>109224772hmm i always assumed routers functioned the same way whenever you switched to ipv6 mode, including the NAT part
>>109224637This happened to me on Nicotine+ on Linux. UPnP worked on Windows though. I also can't port forward via my router, I have to use some fugly ass mobile app.
just torrent on a vps
>>109224772>>109224778Don't forget the hell that is CGNAT with ipv4.
>>109226021>vps>paying to torrentRetard
>>109226070You get 100 dollars of AWS credit for doing the free tutorials and that's like a year worth of torrenting if you're not fucking with the bandwidth, you can also just make more accounts and do the tutorials again lol
>>109223677UPnP is fucking shit. Just like IPv6.A firewall is worthless if things can just open ports at will.
>>109223677> insecureWhat exactly is insecure? Running vulnerable UPnP client while connected to an untrusted network? Running vulnerable or broken UPnP daemon on a router that handles arbitrary devices? Enabling UPnP (for seemingly unrelated tasks and devices) in presence of strict firewall filtering and network audit? All of those might be undesirable in certain conditions, but what do you call “insecure” in your own god damn system?Fucking lamers, I swear.Protocol is not amazing, by the way, it's shit, and its implementations in the wild are awful. Anything that reaches the interface is trusted, so the whole LAN is automatically gets the same control rights.If your router web interface is horrible, you can use console UPnP tool, and write a script that forwards all the ports you need at once.
Obsolete anyway, vast majority of ISPs don't give you an IP anyway, you're sharing it with like 400 other people and can't forward ports
>>109227282a) In certain ISP networks, clients can reach each other by internal addresses (10.0.0.0/8, 100.64.0.0/10), and you can often find local peers for popular torrents that would send data as fast as physical network load allows. You want to receive all incoming connections for the client port on your router for that case, and encourage others to do the same.b) In some cases of double NAT, forwarded port might help with NAT traversal (though it is a rare occasion).
Always off on MikroTikI have it turned offBut also I have scripts to auto-open and auto-close given ports depending on whether or not the service that points to them is online or not
>>109227119It is ironic that the only surviving appendix of the proprietary XML mess designed by the corporate committees is a trivial configuration API that could have been made extremely simple.https://web.archive.org/web/20010405050632/http://www.upnp.org/winternewsletter/committee.htm
>>109223677>nooo you must disable uPnP or you'll get le hacked by viruses!because everyone knows malware always requires an open port and can't just use STUN on any normie full-cone NAT
>>109224778they can function the same way, but in practice most IPv4 nodes are behind NAT, while with IPv6 there's generally no need for NAT.
>>109227282sounds like a third-world problem
>>109223677isn't it on by default with pretty much all modern home routers? i doubt very many people are bothering to dig into their router settings to turn it off
>>109223677>I enable it on every router I buyBased.
>>109223677>>but you should never turn it on because it's insecure>Fuck off, UPnP is the greatest thing to ever happen to networking and I enable it on every router I buy.or instead of being a retard you can take the middle road and only enable UPnP for devices on your network you trust with it and only for a reasonable port range.
>>109226070>noooo you can't just make torrenting easier and better by spending money, you have to be a terminally poor contrarian like me!>noooooooo you can't just pay for digital resources, you have to be a heckin tradpilled digital aesthete like me!!!My my, calm down anon
