Firewall

[Jesse Keating]

On 12/06/2010 11:53 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:48 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Bittorrent, network games, zero conf come to mind.
>>
> 
> Bittorrent won't work through many/most wireless routers unless they are
> not natted and/or not explicitly configured.

Actually bittorrents that have upnp work.  Routers I've seen come
pre-configured to allow upnp, so an app on a computer, or a game
console, sends out a upnp request to open up/forward a port and the
router complies.

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