It works but it pretty much eliminates any security advantage provided by your router. ANY application on a PC connected to the router can request for a port to be forwarded and YOU are not informed. What's worse, on most models even if you go into the port forwarding table it doesn't show the automatically configured ports!
So if you happen to get some piece of spyware/malware, it will open a port silently behind your back and start communicating with homebase and you will not know. The only way to prevent this would be to run a fully functional firewall on each of your machines to look at outbound traffic. Windows SP2 firewall won't cut it because it only blocks incoming and freely passes any outgoing traffic. I really pity all those Internet users who have been told that the are safe with a router and a firewall when it is the SP2 firewall and a router that had uPnP turned on by default. On 6/24/06, Hayes Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>UPnP is so horrible, I can't believe anyone would actually turn it on. *shrugs* It works.
-- Brian
