[Twisted-Python] Punching a firewall with (or without) Twisted - the plot thickens

Stephen Thorne stephen at thorne.id.au
Thu Jun 17 20:27:00 EDT 2010


On 2010-06-17, James Y Knight wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> > Some
> > people think there aren't enough routers that implement UPnP well
> > enough to make it worthwhile
> 
> Doesn't *every* home router purchased in the last 5 years support one  
> of UPnP or NAT-PMP? That's been my experience, at least.

Not all of them.

More to the point, I'm not aware of any corporate routers that support these
things. It's too much of a security risk to be able to have arbitary machines
on your LAN set up port forwards.

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Regards,
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer
Netbox Blue



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