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bedstefar • today at 1:40 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Why would there be accidental port mappings on their router though?

That's the point of NAT-PMP / UPnP, it just works (for game servers, torrent clients, industrial control systems etc.)


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yellow_lead • today at 5:12 PM

Ah ok, I misunderstood what NAT-PMP was. Thanks for explaining.

lmz • today at 2:38 PM

The idea of a control system requesting a port forward rule using NAT-PMP is itself rather questionable.