Disable Window's Network Plug-N-Play Function In XP, the
Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) discovery service searches for
Universal Plug and Play devices on your home network. SSDP searches for
upstream Internet gateways using UDP port 1900 - a potential security risk
many organizations will want to block. OK, you decide to block SSDP
services but to your surprise, your firewall and network sniffers continue
to see the UDP port 1900 packets. You have disabled XP's SSDP and even
Universal Plug and Play Device Host. Whats going on? This is Universal
Plug and Play Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal discovery used
by Messenger. If you run a sniffer trace, the following information is
displayed in the data section of the packet: Credit: the above suggestion (plus many others) are available at: http://is-it-true.org
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