# Tips on how to make UPnP work

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/tips-on-how-to-make-upnp-work/2436
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 15, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/tips-on-how-to-make-upnp-work/2436 "2015-04-15T00:42:54Z")
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### Author: ![calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/calmh/32/15311_2.png) [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2015, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/tips-on-how-to-make-upnp-work/2436/2 "2015-04-15T06:15:06Z")

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Looks like it’s simply not getting search responses when looking for the UPnP devices. Not sure why. Do you have a firewall on the machine you are running synchting on, even a local one? Try turning it off.

The tcp6 socket is normal (it means IPv4 and IPv6), and the port being closed is an effect of UPnP not doing it’s thing and there not being a manual port forward.

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