Re: Question regarding GUPnP and VPN

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Do, 2011-10-20 at 17:09 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 20 October 2011 16:50, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Alexander Kirschner
> > <alexander kirschner jambit com> wrote:
> >> Hi *,
> >> So my questions are:
> >>
> >> 1. Are there any known issues regarding GUPnP and VPN?
> >
> >   As you figured, we ignore VPN connections. For the record, I was
> > against this change from Ross.
> >
> >   Ross?
> 
> I'd be in mild shock if UPnP worked over a VPN connection.  I know I'd
> be terrified of running the universal CP on my VPN connection
> (starting it in one of the Intel offices is known to make the
> universal CP block for a while because it discovers hundreds of
> devices).
> 
> That said if you explicitly specify the device, I thought it would
> work (without looking at the code).

no, gssdp also explicitly skips PTP addresses:

                else if ((ifa->ifa_flags & IFF_POINTOPOINT))
                        continue;



> 
> Ross
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