What is UPNP on routers?

[htyei]

Universal Plug N Play. I understand this for peripherals, but it seems that routers have something like this you can enable / disable. What is it? Same thing?

 

[Fencer128]

Hi,

UPnP is a set of protocols developed to try and bring the same degree of simplicity (*cough*) to the installation of network devices as has been done to PCI like devices.

I guess that unless you have UPnP enabled network devices and you're using UPnP aware drivers to help configure them, then you can safely turn this feature off.

BTW I would suggest that this post is better placed in the GH/Network/TS forums? It isn't highly technical and probably won't draw much traffic here.

Good luck,

Andy