Re: Lunch conversation things

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

It looks like you can control the UPnP from Linux, too:

 https://www.howtoforge.com/administrating-your-gateway-device-via-upnp

Maybe this could be way I could dynamically open bittorrent ports when I'm
downloading something.  (I have a semi-complex set-up at my home so I
doubt that any particular bittorrent client could automatically get it to
work.)

 > From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
 > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:49:45 -0700
 >
 >  > From: Alex  <http://www.gmail.com/~alex.>
 >  > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:55:23 -0700
 >  >
 >  > And here's the non-tunneling tool I used to get my home server working
 >  > https://github.com/kaklakariada/portmapper
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > I see how this works.  It takes advantage of standard functionality in
 > most routers to essentially do dynamic port forwarding.  I didn't know
 > much about UPnP, probably because I never play online games :-).
 > 
 > It does not require an end connection, as I had thought before; it just
 > fiddles with stuff on the router itself using standard protocols.  It's
 > essentially punching a hole in the firewall and forwarding to your
 > machine.  This seems perfectly fine, I think ('tho, I wish the UPnP thing
 > that you found didn't require Java!).