I'm very confused now...

Before the changes I made a couple days ago, in my quest to get UPnP working in mIRC, my Windows XP UPnP configuration was in a state that I can't seem to restore it to now.

* UPnP was working in some apps, but not in mIRC.
* With all apps closed, Wireshark showed lack of a certain kind of activity that is now present, and had the presence of another kind of activity that is now absent.

I did not have the "Internet Connection" icon in Network Connections. I did not have any interface by which to view the list of UPnP ports being forwarded, and yet it was working anyway, in some apps.

Then I enabled "UPnP User Interface". Still, "/localinfo -p" in mIRC gave an error. Applying my DLL patch made it work, and it did not work before then.

Now something about my Windows XP network configuration is entirely different, because I cannot anymore get any UPnP in mIRC to fail while working in other apps, and that goes even for "/localinfo -p". And, there's a constant flurry of UPnP activity visible in Wireshark, presumably so that its status can be shown in the UPnP User Interface. But I can't disable that interface by doing the reverse of what I did to enable it. I can't seem to disable it in any way without disabling UPnP.

The strangest thing is that while I was testing "/localinfo -p" with and without my patch, Wireshark was not showing this constant flurry of UPnP activity (which is presumably for the UPnP User Interface to constantly query its status).


So what I'm basically saying is that I can no longer get mIRC's UPnP not to work.


EDIT: I did install three Windows Updates that aren't automatic updates, last night before going to bed. Maybe one of them did this.

Edit #2: The "constant flurry of UPnP activity" (one query every second) stops when I close all Control Panel related network windows, i.e. Network Connections, Internet Connection Status, etc., and disable the tray icon for Internet Connection. But yesterday, I was not seeing this one-query-every-second at all. Uninstalling the three updates has changed nothing; this anomalous difference persists.

Also, "/localinfo -p" now works even without my patch. My interface IP address, no longer the Computer Name, is now being substituted in now by Windows.

Last edited by Deadcode; 25/10/13 09:00 PM.