While I was going through the motions of trying to get the Ceton echo (CE) to authenticate against my WMC pc, I encountered so many problems that I started turning off all my controls. In particular, I turned on uPnP on my router and took down my Windows firewall on the WMC pc. After I that I was successful in getting the CE to authenticate.
This morning I was fiddling with the router and I remembered that I still had uPnP running. When I went to turn it off, I noticed that the Teredo tunneling protocol had been activated from both the WMC pc and the CE ip addresses. (I looked it up) The Teredo tunneling protocol is a way of tunneling through a router that has IPv6 turned off, which is the case on my router. I turned off IPv6 because of all the things that I had read concerning bypassing routers. Symantec has a nice writeup on how this protocol can be used by botnets, viruses, etc. to wreak havoc on a network. Needless to say, I eliminated the Teredo ports and turned off uPnP altogether.
I am assuming that the CE will still work with the WMC PC because Microsoft should have already given out certs for the connection. There should no longer be a need to pass back any information. I will test it out tonight but the theory is that this setup should work without having uPnP or those ports available. Otherwise, I am really concerned that I have an opening to the outside that I did not authorize.
BTW, what are people who aren't tech knowledgeable supposed to do?
-- LW
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
