Upnp confusion

[Michael Tissington]

OK, I'm confused ....

Both ends are sitting behind NAT routers in different countries and neither
support Upnp (at least one of the routers is too old for this, the other is
a Netopia SDSL router)

So how come I have managed to have a voice and video conversation?

-
Michael Tissington
http://www.oaklodge.com

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Michael,

It's possible that both sides have built-in voice/video support in the router (which really
just translates the IPs necessary and may open/forward the required ports) without UPnP. As
well, is MSN Messenger 6 being used?
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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

 

[Michael Tissington]

MSN Messenger 6 is being used at one end only.

Don't all routers that support NAT do the port forwarding ?