[ale] Firewalls and UPNP

[Boris Borisov]

I may have to call my son because I recall him using discord and I have
simple old Netgear wireless router behind the modem. No settings I had
touched.

On Mon, May 4, 2020, 11:50 AM Robert L. Harris <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> They only use one, but they could use any of a large range.  Which I could
> see, if there are 3 people in one NAT using the same software, it may want
> different ports because someone else is using it at that moment.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:46 AM Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why would communication software needs multiple ports open. Just asking.
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2020, 11:05 AM Robert L. Harris via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So my son and I work at the same company and for team meetings we're
>>> using discord.  I'm trying to set up so we can use Discord in the house
>>> behind the NAT.  Discord it seems though wants a massive range of ports
>>> forwarded directly from the firewall to my PC, which means he can't use
>>> it.  Supposedly it'll work with UPnP though.  I tried using miniupnpd, but
>>> that seems to not work correctly with my iptables.
>>>
>>> Has anyone gotten miniupnp or similar working for things which need that
>>> type of dynamic port forwarding? ( Ring doorbells? )
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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