[ENet-discuss] NAT punch through (again)

[Jay Sprenkle]

Security experts recommend Upnp be disabled since it allows malware or
virii to control your router just as well as it does legitimate programs.


On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:27 -0400, James B wrote:
> > Should I use the MiniUpnp library? Or perhaps Google's libjingle?
>
> Hey James. This doesn't answer your question fully, but another NAT
> traversal API to checkout is libnatpmp which takes care of UPnP port
> forwarding. MiniUPnP offers another API for Apple's alternative standard
> through libminiupnpc4-dev. The upnpc binary is very useful for testing
> whether a port forwarded successfully or not by listing the current port
> forwarding table on your router.
>
> Good luck,
>
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