Hi folks,

I'm about to write up a HOWTO in the documentation area regarding setting up uPnP (since I'm a Windows guy as well as a Linux guy and probably know more about why it's needed than most).  However, the solution requires the replacement of the OpenWRT libshared.so with the one from the Linksys firmware.   I have had this running for 2 days and not spotted any problems, however I need to ask the following questions:

1. Does anybody expect this will trash core applications in OpenWRT?
2. Is everyone happy for me to post this HOWTO with the requirement to replace libshared.so, when this could end up meaning new folks post lots of "Help, OpenWRT is now trashed and I don't know why!" messages in the forum.

Note that I'm not a developer (the last thing I seriously coded in was COBOL) and am not a Linux uber-guru.  However, I am eminently capable of working things out when I need to.  For those of you who give a toss, I'm an IT Security engineer and have a good deal of experience in the IP protocol, hence the reason I'm here and considering that I'm up to the task of owning the uPnP information.

Kaldek

I believe that linux-igd has already been ported with success and without replacing libshared that is currently being thrown away progressively.

See : http://tracker.openwrt.org/search/?quer … p;b=search

If you want to make a howto, I will be very glad to read it because I am getting interested in running upnp for a friend.

Ahhh so libshared is just required by the Linksys binaries - so it's just that the newer upnp daemon needs the newer shared library eh?  Well in that case, I'll just go ahead and work on my HOWTO.

Kaldek

(Last edited by kaldek on 11 Jul 2005, 12:58)

Yep. I run it on my OpenWRT for a long time now. It is stable and works as expected with XP out of box without any configuration on both sides of wire. Installation is super simple: just run ipkg and _don't mess with binaries_.

OK, I think it's important then that I present the two possible options for uPnp - Yani's package and the Linksys binary.  I'll have to make sure my personal preference doesn't stand out too much.