How to clear UPnP leases without reboot?

[Jack Yaz]

Hi all,

As per the title, how does one clear the UPnP leases? Some services have helpfully(!) added leases with no expiry, and I can't find where to remove them. I usually have UPnP off but had it on temporarily to test something. I've tried toggling the option, restarting WAN, and even found a upnp.leases file in /tmp but I guess this is pulled from elsewhere as it re-appears on a WAN restart.

Merlin 384.6, RT-AC86U.

Thanks in advance!

 

[ColinTaylor]

There are some Windows utilities that would do it, but with secure mode enabled you'd have to use them from the same PC that created the leases.

 

[Jack Yaz]

There are some Windows utilities that would do it, but with secure mode enabled you'd have to use them from the same PC that created the leases.

I'll give that a look, thanks

 

[ColinTaylor]

# service stop_upnp

Done.
# rm /var/lib/misc/upnp.leases
# service start_upnp

Done.
#

 

[john9527]

# service stop_upnp

Done.
# rm /var/lib/misc/upnp.leases
# service start_upnp

Done.
#

Minor updates....
on Merlin the leases files is at '/tmp/upnp.leases'
instead of starting upnp at the end
service restart_firewall
The firewall needs to be restarted because of it's interface with upnp (it will also restart upnp - I forget whether the reverse is also true).

 

[Jack Yaz]

Minor updates....
on Merlin the leases files is at '/tmp/upnp.leases'
instead of starting upnp at the end
service restart_firewall
The firewall needs to be restarted because of it's interface with upnp (it will also restart upnp - I forget whether the reverse is also true).

That worked, cheers all