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From: Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Anybody heard about UP&P ?
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:46:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4039312E.9080209@lintelsys.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4035B3BC.6030901@randodetente.org>

Marc Rechté wrote:
> To enable remote assistance from Internet of a WinXP PC on a LAN using 
> NAT one must have a UP&P NAT compatible router.

UPnP(tm) is basically SNMP done with SOAP instead of ASN.1, with some bits of ZeroConf thrown in for good measure.

It involves resource discovery, service discovery and property manipulation.

If you're interested, the specification for an "Internet Gateway Device" is available from the UPnP website. Basically, the IGD allows (authorised) machines to request the gateway to do things such as:
 - Connect to the internet
 - report statistics
 - create a forwarded port

The "create a forwarded port" part is used by Remote Assistance as well as MSN Messenger.

These are not things that can be emulated in netfilter - you'll need a SOAP service, and a whole bunch of other software to implement the IGD specification.

Last time I looked, some people had in fact implemented UPnP services for Linux, but I'm not sure whether IGD was implemented.

Regards
Alex



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-22 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-20  7:14 Anybody heard about UP&P ? Marc Rechté
2004-02-21 18:13 ` Ray Leach
2004-02-22 22:46 ` Alex Satrapa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-20 19:35 Carl Farrington
2004-02-20 20:34 ` Rob Sterenborg
2004-02-22 12:33 ` Chris Brenton
2004-02-22 22:55 Carl Farrington
2004-02-23 14:58 ` rruegner
2004-02-23 15:48 bmcdowell

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