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UPnP Port Forwarding

#networking #cli #upnp

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network services. Wikipedia

miniupnpc

Assuming your router already supports UPnP, you need to install a client to configure the port forwarding.

I'm from a mac so I use miniupnpc.
You can install it using brew:

brew install miniupnpc
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Port forwarding

Let's say your server is running on your local-network on 192.168.0.10:5000, and you want to access it from the internet.

You need to forward an incoming request on your public address to your local one, matching the port number.

Using miniupnpc:

upnpc -a 192.168.0.10 5000 7000 tcp
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This means "Forward any incoming tcp requests on port 7000 to the local address 192.168.0.10, using port 5000".

That is! You can test it by accessing your public IP (you can google it)

curl http://your-public-ip:7000/
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Other commands

Remove entry by port number

upnpc -r 5000
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List entries

upnpc -l
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