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Re: FW: hey had eric sent you

  • From: James Edwards
  • Date: Fri Mar 12 23:59:24 2004 
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:17, Riley, Marty wrote:

>  10:17:16.416222 IP 192.168.1.1.1900 > 239.255.255.250.1900: udp 278
> 

This is UPnP discovery. Take a look here:
http://www.nthelp.com/upnpscrewup.htm
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2002-11/1134.html

I see a lot of unicast UPnP traffic on my networks. 
UPnP seems like a train wreck waiting to happen, to me.

It would be interesting to see what happens if one
of your users turns UPnP off on their host.

Just a shot in the dark.

-- 
James H. Edwards
Routing and Security
At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa  
[email protected]
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