Azureus, Netgear, and UPnP
Azureus, Netgear, and UPnP
My Linksys BEFSR41(v2) gave up the ghost over the weekend -- it got hit with a power surge. So, I took advantage of a sale and picked up a Netgear WGR614(v6), the base line Wireless G router and simply disabled wireless access. The router itself works great, but unfortunately Azureus can't seem to use UPnP to forward the ports it needs. I installed the UPnP interface in Windows Setup and made sure that the proper exception was active in Windows Firewall, but to no avail. Upon startup, Azureus complains that UPnP forwarding failed. I'd rather not statically forward the ports, since the wiring in this house is being pushed to the max and the circuit breaker trips about once a week. When that happens, all the machines get new IP addresses, and I have to go into the router setup to reconfigure each statically forwarded port.
Anyone have success in getting UPnP to work on their Netgear router?
Anyone have success in getting UPnP to work on their Netgear router?
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If I assign it a static IP I also have to copy the DNS server info to the PC. I don't want to bother with that.
Besides, my concern extends beyond just Azureus. I want to know why UPnP forwarding isn't working. The icon for the router shows up fine in My Network Places, so why can't Azureus access it?
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By the way, here's the log from Azureus. It's apparently able to see the UPnP router, but not invoke any actions upon it.
UPnP: root discovered = http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_gatedesc.xml, local = /192.168.1.2
Mapping request: Distributed DB (UDP/6881), enabled = true
Downloading: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_gatedesc.xml
Relative URL base is http://192.168.1.1:80/
Residential Gateway
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_Layer3F.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C1
WAN Device
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WAND.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C2
WAN Connection Device *
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WANIPConn.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
Found WANConnectionDevice
Found WANIPConnection
Downloading: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WANIPConn.xml
com.aelitis.net.upnp.UPnPException: Invoke of 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1#AddPortMapping' fails: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
UPnP: Mapping 'UDP tracker client port (UDP/6881)' failed
com.aelitis.net.upnp.UPnPException: Invoke of 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1#AddPortMapping' fails: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
UPnP: Mapping 'Incoming Peer Data Port (TCP/6881)' failed
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Besides, my concern extends beyond just Azureus. I want to know why UPnP forwarding isn't working. The icon for the router shows up fine in My Network Places, so why can't Azureus access it?
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By the way, here's the log from Azureus. It's apparently able to see the UPnP router, but not invoke any actions upon it.
UPnP: root discovered = http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_gatedesc.xml, local = /192.168.1.2
Mapping request: Distributed DB (UDP/6881), enabled = true
Downloading: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_gatedesc.xml
Relative URL base is http://192.168.1.1:80/
Residential Gateway
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_Layer3F.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C1
WAN Device
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WAND.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C2
WAN Connection Device *
http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WANIPConn.xml, http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
Found WANConnectionDevice
Found WANIPConnection
Downloading: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_WANIPConn.xml
com.aelitis.net.upnp.UPnPException: Invoke of 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1#AddPortMapping' fails: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
UPnP: Mapping 'UDP tracker client port (UDP/6881)' failed
com.aelitis.net.upnp.UPnPException: Invoke of 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:WANIPConnection:1#AddPortMapping' fails: http://192.168.1.1:80/Public_UPNP_C3
UPnP: Mapping 'Incoming Peer Data Port (TCP/6881)' failed
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Roid: go into Add/Remove Windows Components, and it should be under Networking.
Also, this would come in handy in the future, since I will be using a wireless router for a laptop, and obviously if I'm playing Road Warrior, I'm going to need to use DHCP (and UPnP control over someone else's router would be nice ).
Also, this would come in handy in the future, since I will be using a wireless router for a laptop, and obviously if I'm playing Road Warrior, I'm going to need to use DHCP (and UPnP control over someone else's router would be nice ).
win2k doesn't have it there DC. under Networking Services it only has:
- RIP listener
- Simple TCP/IP services
and i've installed MSN messenger and according to this program UPNP still isn't installed. i'm not having much luck on google either :-/
it may well be impossible to isntall UPNP onto win2k.
- RIP listener
- Simple TCP/IP services
and i've installed MSN messenger and according to this program UPNP still isn't installed. i'm not having much luck on google either :-/
it may well be impossible to isntall UPNP onto win2k.
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Just incase you were confused by the engrish of the linksys manuals that say DHCP needs to be disabled to use port forwarding, it's completely WRONG!
I have my router set to DHCP 25 IPs starting at 192.168.1.50, I have all my PCs on static IPs, my main one is 192.168.1.100, my server is 192.168.1.200, etc.
As long as the ports you pick don't conflict with the DHCP port range you can use static systems and dynamic systems side by side at the same time and still use port forwarding.
I have my router set to DHCP 25 IPs starting at 192.168.1.50, I have all my PCs on static IPs, my main one is 192.168.1.100, my server is 192.168.1.200, etc.
As long as the ports you pick don't conflict with the DHCP port range you can use static systems and dynamic systems side by side at the same time and still use port forwarding.
That's not what I'm referring to. I know very well I can do that, but I consider disabling DHCP in order to use UPnP an ass-backwards way around the problem. I'd rather address the problem at its face (UPnP is not working on my router) than simply avoid the issue by not using either DHCP or UPnP, for the reasons I have previously described but I will again enumerate:
1. Why bother configuring things statically when they can be done dynamically?
2. Why manually configure DNS and everything else on my machine when the router can do it for me?
3. Why force me to reconfigure my laptop whenever I bring it back into my house, rather than use UPnP all the time, and therefore have one less thing to worry about?
Besides, I really want to know why it's not working. I want to know if it's user error, a flaw in the Netgear router, or a flaw in the way Azureus is written. If anyone knows of a program I can use to test UPnP, please let me know. I can always use a different torrent program, but I can't just switch routers. I'm not made of money.
1. Why bother configuring things statically when they can be done dynamically?
2. Why manually configure DNS and everything else on my machine when the router can do it for me?
3. Why force me to reconfigure my laptop whenever I bring it back into my house, rather than use UPnP all the time, and therefore have one less thing to worry about?
Besides, I really want to know why it's not working. I want to know if it's user error, a flaw in the Netgear router, or a flaw in the way Azureus is written. If anyone knows of a program I can use to test UPnP, please let me know. I can always use a different torrent program, but I can't just switch routers. I'm not made of money.
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DCrazy, this seems to be a known problem with many hardware wireless routers. They simply do not work.
I've had two D-Link DI-624 routers now. The first one UPnP worked fine, but it would drop the wireless connection at random times quite frequently. The second seems to do okay, and to my knowledge hasn't dropped the connection. However it's UPnP doesn't work. So I gain one thing, and lose another.
I'm now in the market to get another router that isn't D-Link since they can't seem to get it right. If you do research on the internet. You will however see that there are many people from all the manufactures having problems of these types with their routers. So it's anyones guess...
Most people that I've talked with use Linksys, and haven't had problems, so that's going to be my next try.
I've had two D-Link DI-624 routers now. The first one UPnP worked fine, but it would drop the wireless connection at random times quite frequently. The second seems to do okay, and to my knowledge hasn't dropped the connection. However it's UPnP doesn't work. So I gain one thing, and lose another.
I'm now in the market to get another router that isn't D-Link since they can't seem to get it right. If you do research on the internet. You will however see that there are many people from all the manufactures having problems of these types with their routers. So it's anyones guess...
Most people that I've talked with use Linksys, and haven't had problems, so that's going to be my next try.