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spook_d83894

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June 18th, 2005 06:00

Automatic Port Forwarding

When I was poking around at my routers configuration I noticed that there was some ports being forwarded for limewire.  I did not put them in there and I was wondering how they got there.  When I was installing Limewire the windows firewall asked me if I wanted to open the ports and I clicked yes.  Does the Windows Xp firewall pass this request on to the router?
  • jwatt

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    Posted June 18th, 2005 19:00

    Some routers support a feature called " Universal Plug and Play" (UPnP) that will produce a result like that. Fortunately, you were asked by the firewall software whether it was OK to open the ports, so you knew something was being changed.

    I personally consider UPnP a bit worrisome, and would prefer to have to make port forwarding changes manually in the router.

    Jim
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    Posted June 18th, 2005 19:00

    Thanks for the information.  It seems that this was the problem.  I have gone into the configureation for my router and turned this off.