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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