The following script Written by nabe@abk (Credit to author) displays the UPNP Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) packets from your network. $ vim ssdp-test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl ################################################################################ # SSDP discover Written by nabe@abk / This is PDS ################################################################################ use strict; use Socket; my $CAST = '239.255.255.250'; my $PORT = 1900; ################################################################################ my $msg =<<SSDP; M-SEARCH * HTTP/1.1 HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900 MAN: "ssdp:discover" MX: 3 ST: ssdp:all SSDP # ST: ssdp:all # ST: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1 # ST: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1 $msg =~ s/\r?\n/\r\n/g; ################################################################################ my $sock; my $addr = pack_sockaddr_in($PORT, inet_aton($CAST)); socket($sock, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0); setsockopt($sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, 1); bind($sock, pack_sockaddr_in(0, INADDR_ANY)); send($sock, $msg, 0, $addr); while (1){ my $buf; recv($sock, $buf, 65536, 0); print "$buf\n"; } Now, run this script as, $ perl ssdp-test.pl $ perl ssdp-test.pl HTTP/1.1 200 OK CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=1800 DATE: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:58:58 GMT ST: uuid:4d696e69-444c-164e-9d41-544810cf4812 USN: uuid:4d696e69-444c-164e-9d41-544810cf4812 EXT: SERVER: Ubuntu DLNADOC/1.50 UPnP/1.0 MiniDLNA/1.2.1 LOCATION: http://192.168.0.104:8200/rootDesc.xml Content-Length: 0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=1800 DATE: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:58:58 GMT ST: upnp:rootdevice USN: uuid:4d696e69-444c-164e-9d41-544810cf4812::upnp:rootdevice EXT: SERVER: Ubuntu DLNADOC/1.50 UPnP/1.0 MiniDLNA/1.2.1 LOCATION: http://192.168.0.104:8200/rootDesc.xml Content-Length: 0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=1800 DATE: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:58:58 GMT ST: urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1 USN: uuid:4d696e69-444c-164e-9d41-544810cf4812::urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1 EXT: SERVER: Ubuntu DLNADOC/1.50 UPnP/1.0 MiniDLNA/1.2.1 LOCATION: http://192.168.0.104:8200/rootDesc.xml Content-Length: 0 You can also refer to C program – UDP Server to print UPNP Packets

Gotchas and common issues

  • Permission checks - verify user access rights and sudo privileges before executing system-level operations.

  • Environment configuration - double-check path variables and dependency versions to prevent runtime failures.

  • Backup safeguards - maintain configuration backups before applying system or database modifications.

Following these steps ensures clean configuration and reliable execution for identify upnp ssdp packets from your network.