Problem With UPnP...

[Sephiroth]

OK, I always do a custom install of Windows on my boxes
each year when I format. I installed UPnP on this box
last month when I formatted and now it shows my two
firewire connections, my LAN connection, and my router
(shown as "Internet Gateway"). The router is UPnP, so if
I go into properties and setting on the "Internet
Gateway", I can choose to forward UDP or TCP ports, and
enable/disable them. However, I rebooted my router Jan1
because I reboot it once every month to clear logs and
such. Now my "Internet Gateway" still shows up, but none
of my prior settings are there! Are they still on the
drive or in the registry somewhere, or when the router
went offline for all of thirty seconds, did XP wipe
EVERYTHING I had done? If so, how can I prevent this in
the future? I have a lot of services to configure for
this box, even though I only have one (ICQ file recieve)
on all the time. Ohters include dang-near every game in
existance, which I enable when playing, and disable when
done.

 

[CheshireCat]

OK, I always do a custom install of Windows on my boxes
each year when I format. I installed UPnP on this box
last month when I formatted and now it shows my two
firewire connections, my LAN connection, and my router
(shown as "Internet Gateway"). The router is UPnP, so if
I go into properties and setting on the "Internet
Gateway", I can choose to forward UDP or TCP ports, and
enable/disable them. However, I rebooted my router Jan1
because I reboot it once every month to clear logs and
such. Now my "Internet Gateway" still shows up, but none
of my prior settings are there! Are they still on the
drive or in the registry somewhere, or when the router
went offline for all of thirty seconds, did XP wipe
EVERYTHING I had done? If so, how can I prevent this in
the future? I have a lot of services to configure for
this box, even though I only have one (ICQ file recieve)
on all the time. Ohters include dang-near every game in
existance, which I enable when playing, and disable when
done.

You dont say what router model you're using.
Why are you setting up your router using the Internet Gateway?. Please read
the Computing News article below.
http://cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/spring2003/upnp.html
If you can configure it via the browser do that instead, then back up the
router settings to disk so you can reload them later in case of problems.

 

[Sephiroth]

I don't set it up via static configuration because then
those ports are open all the time, leaving holes in my
firewall. And I cannot simply login, change stuff, and
exit. The router requires a reboot to make static
changes. UPnP solves this time-consuming and very
annoying process. Why even have UPnP if you can't use it?

 

[Guest]

BTW, my router is a NetGear, not a Linksys. I totally
despise Linksys hardware beyond the NIC. Everyhting on my
network is 3Com or NetGear. And trust me, I do NOT use
any wizards. I code and have been doing computers since I
was old enough to read. That article didn't apply to me
at all. However, that's the second major problem I've
heard of involving Linksys in about two weeks. First
thing was that when everybody else updated their
firmwares for newer dynamic DNS support, Linksys ignored
the bulletein and did their own thing. Now Linksys
routers don't work with several major dynamic hosting
services. Way to go Linksys.

 

[CheshireCat]

BTW, my router is a NetGear, not a Linksys. I totally
despise Linksys hardware beyond the NIC. Everyhting on my
network is 3Com or NetGear. And trust me, I do NOT use
any wizards. I code and have been doing computers since I
was old enough to read. That article didn't apply to me
at all. However, that's the second major problem I've
heard of involving Linksys in about two weeks. First
thing was that when everybody else updated their
firmwares for newer dynamic DNS support, Linksys ignored
the bulletein and did their own thing. Now Linksys
routers don't work with several major dynamic hosting
services. Way to go Linksys.

I only ever tried 1 of their routers and it died within the month. Im on my
second netgear FR114P which suits my needs well.

I don't really know what to suggest m8. I enabled PnP last night to see how
my own system performed under it. If I attempt to configure the Internet
Gateway it just opens a browser window with the usual interface.
If you set up rules on your model, does it then allow you to enable/disable
them rather than create/delete? I was wondering if you could set up all the
ones you could possibly want via the browser and keep them disabled until
you need them, afterwards back up the router info to disk to save you
entering them manually in future. Maybe I'm just not understanding what
you're configuring the router to do.

Sorry I couldn't be more help, but I tried. Good luck.