Connected through a UPnP firewall

I seem to have got UPnP enabled, but after shutting my computer off last
night, and turning it back on this morning, now my connection status shows
"connected through a UPnP firewall".

Is this a good connection, or is there anything else I need to do? I have
the router firewall set on the lowest setting (allow incoming and outgoing),
and am using software firewall McAfee Personal Firewall at standard setting
with UPnP port 5000 enabled.

No, you're done. It will simply work, that's the whole point of UPnP.

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"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
news:8946C3C9-08C2-4A74-9A67-...
>I seem to have got UPnP enabled, but after shutting my computer off last
> night, and turning it back on this morning, now my connection status shows
> "connected through a UPnP firewall".
>
> Is this a good connection, or is there anything else I need to do? I have
> the router firewall set on the lowest setting (allow incoming and outgoing),
> and am using software firewall McAfee Personal Firewall at standard setting
> with UPnP port 5000 enabled.
>

whether i open the UPNP port 5000 in my mcafee firewall or not it dosn't seem
to change the connection status message i'm receiving....(connected through a
UPnP firewall).

(1) do i need to manually have that port (UPNP port 5000) open in the mcafee
personal firewall, or no? Even when i turned the firewall off, it still
showed connected through a UPnP firewall...not sure why.

(2) is there a delay from when you make a change to when your connection
status changes (does it take time for the server to update the info, or do
you need to restart your computer/router or anything)?



"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

> No, you're done. It will simply work, that's the whole point of UPnP.
>
> --
> Jonathan Kay
> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
> Associate Expert
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
> All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
> You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
> --
>
> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
> news:8946C3C9-08C2-4A74-9A67-...
> >I seem to have got UPnP enabled, but after shutting my computer off last
> > night, and turning it back on this morning, now my connection status shows
> > "connected through a UPnP firewall".
> >
> > Is this a good connection, or is there anything else I need to do? I have
> > the router firewall set on the lowest setting (allow incoming and outgoing),
> > and am using software firewall McAfee Personal Firewall at standard setting
> > with UPnP port 5000 enabled.
> >
>
>
>