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  Disable UPnP on Your Wireless Router Already

  

  lifehacker.com

  Forwarding ports on your router so devices can talk to the outside world is a pain in the butt, so it makes sense why a technology like UPnP sounds so convenient. This automatic process assumes that it’s safe to expose your network to the internet when internal programs request access—which is generally true, unless…Read more...

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  How NAT traversal works

  

  tailscale.com

  How NAT traversal works NAT is used widely in home networks, or Cloud VPC(AWS, GCP, Azure)...

  How NAT traversal works NAT is used widely in home networks, or Cloud VPC(AWS, GCP, Azure) and many network deployments. Because we cannot have a public reachable IP for every devices so all devices share a single IP address and rely on the router to translate the internet package back to the right device. So how do we establish a peer-to-peer connection between two...

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  UPnP flaw exposes millions of network devices to attacks over the Internet

  

  arstechnica.com

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  Google's New Nest Router Makes Wi-Fi Easier. And It Talks

  

  wired.com

  If you're already on the Google bandwagon, the Nest WiFi fits well with the company's vision...

  If you're already on the Google bandwagon, the Nest WiFi fits well with the company's vision of a connected home.

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