hi, this is the current art of design of uni plug an play http://linux-igd.sourceforge.net/ on linux Regards ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Farrington" <carl@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:55 PM Subject: RE: Anybody heard about UP&P ? > From: Alex Satrapa [mailto:alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 22 February 2004 22:46 > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Anybody heard about UP&P ? > > Marc Rechté wrote: > > To enable remote assistance from Internet of a WinXP PC on a LAN using > > NAT one must have a UP&P NAT compatible router. > > UPnP(tm) is basically SNMP done with SOAP instead of ASN.1, with some bits > of ZeroConf thrown in for good measure. > > It involves resource discovery, service discovery and property > manipulation. > > If you're interested, the specification for an "Internet Gateway Device" > is available from the UPnP website. Basically, the IGD allows (authorised) > machines to request the gateway to do things such as: > - Connect to the internet > - report statistics > - create a forwarded port > > The "create a forwarded port" part is used by Remote Assistance as well as > MSN Messenger. > > These are not things that can be emulated in netfilter - you'll need a > SOAP service, and a whole bunch of other software to implement the IGD > specification. > > Last time I looked, some people had in fact implemented UPnP services for > Linux, but I'm not sure whether IGD was implemented. > http://linux-igd.sourceforge.net/ looks to be the thing. Not yet working with Microsoft products though.
