UpnP only over Lan

[nihon]

Hi
In the asuswrt web gui under WAN one can enable upnp. I want only Upnp and DLNA to work inside my LAN.

If I dont enable Upnp under WAN my devices inside the Lan does not find each other over Upnp. Is this expected?

How can I enable the Upnp to work inside LAN only?

 

[nihon]

Hi
In the asuswrt web gui under WAN one can enable upnp. I want only Upnp and DLNA to work inside my LAN.

If I dont enable Upnp under WAN my devices inside the Lan does not find each other over Upnp. Is this expected?

How can I enable the Upnp to work inside LAN only?

Nevermind suddenly after trying for almost a day it started working now. Maybe it needed to update some db or just yet another reboot did the trick....

 

[reerden]

Hi
In the asuswrt web gui under WAN one can enable upnp. I want only Upnp and DLNA to work inside my LAN.

If I dont enable Upnp under WAN my devices inside the Lan does not find each other over Upnp. Is this expected?

How can I enable the Upnp to work inside LAN only?

Just because the option is located under WAN doesn't mean it is enabled on the WAN interface. That would be a gigantic security risk as it would allow anyone to forward ports on your router.

UPnP is always LAN only. The reason it is located on the WAN page is because it concerns forwarding ports on your WAN interface.

 

[nihon]

Thanks for the explanation

 

[mulchmouth4]

Just because the option is located under WAN doesn't mean it is enabled on the WAN interface. That would be a gigantic security risk as it would allow anyone to forward ports on your router.

UPnP is always LAN only. The reason it is located on the WAN page is because it concerns forwarding ports on your WAN interface.

You are wrong. UPnp is not always LAN only.

 

[ColinTaylor]

This thread was over 2 years old and is obsolete. The original problem was nothing to do with UPnP WAN access, but a confusion over the term UPnP. There used to be two entries called "UPnP" one was the IGD (port forwarding) and the other was the Media Server (UPnP/AV). The OP had a problem with his media server.

 

[RMerlin]

Affected manufacturers/models:

That document is simply wrong about Asus. Asuswrt configures miniupnpd to only bind to the LAN interface, therefore it will never answer to queries coming from the WAN (which would be closed in the firewall anyway).