Re: Flooded with calls to port 1900

From: Dan (an3951@NOSPAMearthlink.net)
Date: 02/05/03 

From: Dan <an3951@NOSPAMearthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:01:23 -0500

Mike <spamlessmike@spamcop.net> wrote:

>>No RIP Installed but I did have 'Internet Gateway Device Discovery and
>>Control Client' enabled. When I unchecked it and dialed back in the
>>requests stopped coming in. But I did the same on my laptop and it
>>didn't stop it. This is driving me nuts. I'm not sure but if I disable
>>this I may lose the ability to function as a gateway for other
>>computers on my network. I am not using any router.
>
>Is the UPnP service running on the Laptop? Shut it down.
>
>I don't think disabling UPnP will break anything. I read something to
>that effect on one of the linked pages I posted earlier. You manually
>configured everything, right?
>
>Mike

Yes, I setup everything manually. But I sure don't remember enabling the
Internet Gateway Device.