Re: [core-dev] UPnP code in mainline - test please

Hi Zlatin, I would be happy to test this new UPnP code and give you any results that I find but I'm afraid that I don't use a router, otherwise I'd be helping out. Brian

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From: "Zlatin Balevsky" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [core-dev] UPnP code in mainline - test please
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:53:53 -0500

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> There is preliminary UPnP support available for testing in mainline 
> cvs.  It is not ready for wider testing yet, its intended for more 
> technical users.  If you have an UPnP-enabled router, please give it 
> a try.
> 
> Upon startup Limewire will try to detect whether there is an 
> UPnP-enabled router reachable on the local network.  If it finds 
> such router, shortly after startup it will try to open a listening 
> port on the router so that it can receive incoming TCP connections 
> and UDP packets.  If it does that successfully it will automatically 
> specify the "force port" setting.  Upon shutdown, Limewire will 
> clean up those mappings - so you may experience a little delay 
> during shutdown.  Note that if limewire does not discover a UPnP 
> router or you have set the Force Port setting manually, it will not 
> try to do anything.
> 
> How to tell if it worked?  If your router has a console or web 
> interface which shows what UPnP mappings have been created, you 
> should see two mappings made by limewire.  Their descriptions will 
> be something like "LimeTCP:asdf123 (client guid here)" and 
> "LimeUDP:asdf123  (client guid)" for the TCP and UDP ports 
> respectively.
> 
> Limewire will try to open the same port it listens on locally - so 
> please experiment with those ports already being taken by different 
> applications on the router.  Also please experiment with killing 
> limewire during any stage of the mapping process - creating, 
> cleanup, etc. as well as any other event that you believe can happen 
> in the field; ideally we would provision for every possibility.
> 
> Thank you, you're the best!
> LimeWire Team
> 
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