Unfortunately the current firmware version on the installed CPE does not support UPnP. I don't know where the rest of the members stand on it. Personally I'm indifferent, but 90% of the time it only facilitates high-bandwidth applications such as bittorrent, ichat/skype ptp file transfers and video chats (regular iChat/Skype use works fine without it). I'm not saying it's not useful, however as you pointed out, it can cause problems on heavily used networks such as the miss-net.
Tyler Booth // President ph. 503.548.2000 | fx. 503.548.2002 921 SW Washington St, Suite 224 Portland OR 97205 On Dec 2, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Irving Popovetsky wrote: > Team, here's an opportunity to discuss a "user friendliness" issue with free > wifi systems. > > UPnP and NAT-PMP were designed to gracefully handle dynamic port forwarding > for ports > 1024. It's included with most open source router/firewall > distros. I find it pretty useful at home and well supported on all > platforms. > > Pros: Used by many voice/video chat clients (iChat, Skype, probably > others) to get around NAT issues and provide a better voice/video experience. > > Cons: Also used to easily enable Bittorrent seeding. Probably not desirable > on the typical overworked PTP node, but that isn't my call. Also a > potential security risk, as users may be unknowingly exposing themselves to > the Internet boogeyman even more than usual. > > The percentage of users who will want to forward SSH to themselves (via a > high port) is probably very small. The major use cases are stated above. > But if those users are people who assist PTP, shouldn't they deserve a perk > or two? Perhaps it would help retain volunteers. > > -Irving > > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Tyler Booth <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon, > > The trouble with port forwarding on this particular network is that everyone > on it shares a single IP address. Port 80 and 22 are already forwarded to > Personal Telco routers/servers that manage this network. > As for your offer of assistance, we're always looking for eager volunteers. > Please come to a weekly or monthly meeting and introduce yourself. > > Tyler Booth // President > ph. 503.548.2000 | fx. 503.548.2002 > 921 SW Washington St, Suite 224 > Portland OR 97205 > > > > > On Nov 17, 2009, at 9:41 PM, jon wrote: > >> hi, i am a regular user of the mississippi ptp network, and on most >> days can connect from my home a couple blocks away. i am wondering >> what ptp policy is for setting up nat or port forwarding (etc) for us >> normal users to be able to get to our ptp-connected machines from the >> outside world? >> >> obviously there are matters of security to contend with and so forth, >> but i am thinking of an unused outside port mapping to port 80 of my >> linux box (presumably on a mac-assigned static internal ip address), >> so that i can demo some of my web development to outsiders. as a >> bonus, another port going to 22 wouldnt hurt either! heh >> >> this is not at all an urgent or critical inquiry, more just one of >> curiosity. i tend to push things through svn to outside hosts when i >> *really* need to show some development, but it would just be so >> convenient to have somewhere to point to that has the active >> development. >> >> thanks much, especially for keeping the network going over here! >> -jon >> >> p.s. i have offered before, but will state again -- i am available for >> any light net admin kinda maintenance on the mgp network as needed. i >> even helped climb up on the ballroom roof once to get some new >> equipment in. lemme know. >> >> -- >> The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ >> Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate >> Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ >> >> Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette >> List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ > Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate > Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ > Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette > List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > -- > The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ > Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate > Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ > Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette > List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] -- The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
