SSDP Protocol
This page provides information on the SSDP Protocol detected by the Netify DPI engine. The protocol operates on UDP port 1900, an officially registered port assigned by the IANA.
Protocol Description
The Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) protocol is used by the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. The protocol provides broadcast and discovery of network services on a local network.
Please see the protocol catalog page for information on other protocols detected by Netify DPI.
Protocol Details
- ID
- 12
- Full Name
- Simple Service Discovery Protocol
- Abbreviation
- SSDP
- Category Tag
- networking
- Category
- Networking
- Home Page
- SSDP
- Introduced
- Version 2.88
Protocol Ports - RFC
- UDP 1900
- SSDP
Best Practices
The multicast 239.255.255.250 IPv4 and ff0X::c IPv6 addresses are used to announce services on a local network. You may see these two IP addresses in your Netify reports.
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