[ale] Miniupnpd + Xbox 1

[dev null zero two]

online gaming and VPNs don't mix too well.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:48 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's very unlikely that you will experience problems with other devices by
> mapping 3074 to the XBone. I don't know of any other devices that
> explicitly use that port. 88 may be trickier, but as I said, I don't use it
> at all.
>
>
> On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> ------------------------------
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>> *From: *"James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> *To: *"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>> *Sent: *Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:17:26 AM
>> *Subject: *Re: [ale] Miniupnpd + Xbox 1
>>
>>
>>
>> If you go by MS's documentation then you'll have a very open firewall --
>> https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/networking/network-
>> ports-used-xbox-live
>>
>>
>> Yea, I saw that earlier and I'm hesitant.  I already lock many devices
>> here via dhcpd by MAC.  I could try the 3074 and 88.
>>
>> OpenVPN on the XB1 would be nice, but a dream.  I could just give it a
>> public IP.
>>
>> Using iptables to simply route 88 and 2074, etc down to 192.168.1.3 24x7
>> may have be a problem since we have so many other devices.
>>
>> We have many tools we could use.  I do have an ipvanish account and
>> openvpn on my router.  Maybe I could use that and then map that public down
>> to 192.168.1.3?  Downside is that ipvanish only allows one profile running
>> and Netflix will stop.  I've been working on the latter.  I'm routing subs
>> that belong to them outside the VPN and out eth1.  I'm routing Google DNS
>> out eth1.  dnsmask is using Google dns for *.netflix.com.  To test I
>> simply randomly start up and night and wait for complaints.
>>
>>
>>
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