The easy answer is give the complainers a public. The problem you will
run into is XBOX live tells them their nat status. In my experience you
will have the people who are being told by Microsoft they need to have a
simple nat or whatever the box tells them.
You can make it work with UPnP, but you should have a router which fully
supports it. Mikrotik has to be pretty much 4.5 or higher. Even then it
has issues.
Xbox live will work good with a moderate nat setting. This is normally a
single NAT. What you will run into is gamers try to squeeze every last
³drop² out of their Internet. No matter what you tell them they won¹t rest
until their settings/network/controls are ideal, at least according to them.
Justin
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Justin Wilson <[email protected]>
http://www.mtin.net/blog
Wisp Consulting Tower Climbing Network Support
From: Kurt Fankhauser <[email protected]>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:07:57 -0400
To: 'WISPA General List' <[email protected]>
Subject: [WISPA] XBOX live, NAT, and UPnP
So does anyone here have any customers that use XBOX live and bark to you
about you NAT? Apparently the XBOX live service is very picky about being
behind any NAT device and its ability to make connections to other servers.
>From what I gathered is that the LIVE service uses Universal Plug and Play
(UPnP) to get around this but the question I have is. If your doing
masquerade on a Mikrotik Core Router should you enable UPnP on that device?
Or should I just issue public IP¹s to the customer that games and let them
worry about it? And if you have UPnP enabled on the core router and then do
a double-NAT through the customers Linksys router with UPnP enable does that
not work because of the double-NAT?
Kurt Fankhauser
WAVELINC
P.O. Box 126
Bucyrus, OH 44820
419-562-6405
www.wavelinc.com <http://www.wavelinc.com>
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