am I being hit by the upnp bug?

[dvohwinkel]

I use an ipsec vpn tunnel (PulseSecure) into work(from a windows 7 box) and have been noticing strange disconnects to services for years.. things like Pidgin would lose it's connection.. I would refresh the vpn and it would work again.

I noticed a thread on here that talked similar issues and upnp being the issue. They said to put "echo 0 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_snooping" into /jffs/scripts/init-start . It works when I run it by hand but it does not seem to be surviving a reboot. I don't understand why it is needed but it has HUGELY increased my stability of programs running over my work vpn.

admin@RT-AC68U-C818:/jffs/scripts# ll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 132 May 1 11:26 init-start*
admin@RT-AC68U-C818:/jffs/scripts# cat init-start
#!/bin/sh
# Turn off multicast snooping (required for minidlna advertisement)
echo 0 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_snooping

What am I doing wrong.. and why is this even needed? (Beta 380.66_4 and 360.65_2 and earlier) I also have enabled jffs scripts in the gui.

Regards

-Dave

 

[paulbates]

Will Pidgin run withoug UPNP?
If yes, is UPNP disabled on your router? Wan/Internet Connection/Enable UPNP = No

Paul

 

[dvohwinkel]

Will Pidgin run withoug UPNP?
If yes, is UPNP disabled on your router? Wan/Internet Connection/Enable UPNP = No

Paul

It's one of those things I always just thought I needed. I have now disabled it and things seem to be working fine.

 

[Vexira]

I use an ipsec vpn tunnel (PulseSecure) into work(from a windows 7 box) and have been noticing strange disconnects to services for years.. things like Pidgin would lose it's connection.. I would refresh the vpn and it would work again.

I noticed a thread on here that talked similar issues and upnp being the issue. They said to put "echo 0 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_snooping" into /jffs/scripts/init-start . It works when I run it by hand but it does not seem to be surviving a reboot. I don't understand why it is needed but it has HUGELY increased my stability of programs running over my work vpn.

admin@RT-AC68U-C818:/jffs/scripts# ll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin root 132 May 1 11:26 init-start*
admin@RT-AC68U-C818:/jffs/scripts# cat init-start
#!/bin/sh
# Turn off multicast snooping (required for minidlna advertisement)
echo 0 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_snooping

What am I doing wrong.. and why is this even needed? (Beta 380.66_4 and 360.65_2 and earlier) I also have enabled jffs scripts in the gui.

Regards

-Dave

Does it even require upnp, easiest way to check is open the upnp log in the router fire up pidgin, then see if a port appears.

 

[paulbates]

It's one of those things I always just thought I needed. I have now disabled it and things seem to be working fine.

It was something needed on routers a number of years ago. Your LAN UPNP devices will find themselves. Opening UPNP to the internet is a security risk. While you're at it, go to Tools / Other Settings and make sure that Miniupnp: Enable secure mode (default: Yes) is set to Yes.

Paul

 

[Vexira]

It was something needed on routers a number of years ago. Your LAN UPNP devices will find themselves. Opening UPNP to the internet is a security risk. While you're at it, go to Tools / Other Settings and make sure that Miniupnp: Enable secure mode (default: Yes) is set to Yes.

Paul

It's a shame upnp version 2.0 doesn't work I read it's supposed to be alot more secure the earlier versions.