Sometimes UPNP stops working

[Yousuf Khan]

On XP, I've found that after the machine has been running for awhile,
that Universal Plug'n'Play stops working on it. This happens after
several days of continuous running. So far the only solution I've found
to fix it is to restart the machine. But I was hoping to get the UPNP
working again in a simpler way, perhaps just by restarting the
UPNP-related services. I tried a restart of both the SSDP service and
the UPNP service, but neither fixed the issue. Has anyone else found any
solution to this?

Yousuf Khan

 

[Rob]

On XP, I've found that after the machine has been running for awhile,
that Universal Plug'n'Play stops working on it. This happens after
several days of continuous running. So far the only solution I've found
to fix it is to restart the machine. But I was hoping to get the UPNP
working again in a simpler way, perhaps just by restarting the
UPNP-related services. I tried a restart of both the SSDP service and
the UPNP service, but neither fixed the issue. Has anyone else found any
solution to this?

Yousuf Khan

There is no known problem with upnp in XP, so the chances are this
is being caused by a bad driver or pnp hardware on your system.
Given that it takes several days for the problem to appear, it will
be tricky to track-down the culprit. I would start by unplugging all
devices that you can do without until they are needed (eg memory card
readers, external drives, etc) and run it until upnp fails. Next
step would be removing 3rd-party drivers, such as keyboard and mouse
and run with the standard microsoft ones.
Good luck,

 

[Yousuf Khan]

There is no known problem with upnp in XP, so the chances are this
is being caused by a bad driver or pnp hardware on your system.
Given that it takes several days for the problem to appear, it will
be tricky to track-down the culprit. I would start by unplugging all
devices that you can do without until they are needed (eg memory card
readers, external drives, etc) and run it until upnp fails. Next
step would be removing 3rd-party drivers, such as keyboard and mouse
and run with the standard microsoft ones.
Good luck,

You misunderstood, I'm not talking about Plug'n'Play (for hardware), I'm
talking about "Universal Plug'n'Play" (for networking). This is the
service that allows network applications to automatically setup port
forwardings through the router.

I never understood why Microsoft chose this name for a networking
technology, after choosing a similar name for a hardware detection
standard. It would've been better to call it AutoNetwork or something
like that.

Yousuf Khan