Re: Gaming Consoles/UPnP

[Dan Oachs <doachs () GAC EDU>]

No complaints from the gamers here, but we do give them all public ipv6 and
ipv4 addresses so they don't need any UPnP.

--Dan

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 5:05 PM Curtis, Bruce <bruce.curtis () ndsu edu> wrote:

> We identify Game Consoles with ISC DHCP classes and give the Game Consoles
> Public IPv4 addresses.
>
> Of course all of the devices on our network can use Public IPv6
> addresses...
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 3:20 PM, Pete, Andrew <
> 000000d06e28c017-dmarc-request () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> wrote:
>
> We regularly get requests/complaints from students living on campus that
> they are unable to play some games online.  The issue is that the game
> console is trying to use UPnP to open up ports on the firewall.  This
> doesn't work since UPnP isn't supported on enterprise equipment.  From what
> I could find on other institution's websites, their stance is they do not
> support these devices.  I'm curious to hear if anyone has a different
> stance and if they have a working solution.  I know configuring a 1 to 1
> NAT is a possibility but that would require purchasing a large block of
> public addresses.
>
> *Andrew Pete*
> *Information Security Architect*
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