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    Forwarded ports without my premission

    Strange thing happened to me. When looked at the "Port forwarding" tab in "Status & Log" folder in the administration, there were three forwarded ports. Destination was both my connected PCs, protocols both UDP and TCP. I don't remember exactly their port numbers, but it was somewhwere around 63000. Port forwarding, port triggering and DMZ was of course disabled.
    Those setting stayed there even after restart, they disappeared after settings restoration.
    Any idea what was it?

    (I'm using torrents, ftp, samba...)

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    Hi,

    that's because upnp is enabled.

    Have a look at the following thread http://www.wl500g.info/showthread.ph...t=disable+upnp

    If you don't need upnp, disable it.

    HTH

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    Yeah, that's it. I really didn't notice this. Maybe it should be disabled by default in Oleg FW. Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bugmenot View Post
    Yeah, that's it. I really didn't notice this. Maybe it should be disabled by default in Oleg FW. Thanks.
    I don't think it should
    maybe not everyone likes upnp
    but it does provide easier internet access for you, so you don't have to portforward everything yourself.
    On my old router I didn't have upnp, and games lagged, msn speed was slow etc.
    now I have upnp, it automatically finds games and servers to open up ports
    the only downside is: some programs don't remove the ports from the list.
    that's why you have a firewall on your pc, so it's safe enough

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