| ▲ | n4bz0r 7 months ago | |
This makes perfect sense on paper, but I disabled UPNP in router settings at some point just to see what happens and the torrents still work to this day. No issues with no apps whatsoever. That got me confused and I assumed that NAT masquerading is responsible for such "port forwarding" (having the address translation table and all that). I'm currently using Mikrotik router with the latest RouterOS and Transmission/qBitTorrent for the clients if that helps. Any idea why is this the case? And if (just in case) Mikrotik's implementation of NAT does in fact do "UPNP", why add separate UPNP settings? By the looks of things, I would assume that, when disabled, UPNP still works, but with some default rule set, and when enabled, you get to fine tune the interfaces. But that's just a wild guess. No mentions of such behaviour in the official wiki. Sorry, Mikrotik does some arcane things so learning network concepts on RouterOS often leaves one with more answers than questions :') | ||
| ▲ | arantius 7 months ago | parent [-] | |
Because this misunderstanding and limitation is so common, BitTorrent has workarounds in place. | ||