Advanced Setup; Upnp Setup - Planet WDRT-1200AC User Manual

5.6 Advanced Setup

5.6.1 UPnP Setup

With the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) protocol, a host on the LAN side may request the router of port
conversion, so that a host outside the LAN may access the resources on the hosts in the LAN.
Click Advanced Setup  UPnP Setup and the following page will be displayed.
The page includes the following fields:
Object
 Turn UPnP On:
 Advertisement
Period(in minutes):
 Advertisement Time
To Live(in hops):
Figure 5-6-1 UPnP Setup
Description
Enable or Disable UPnP function.
UPnP can be enabled or disabled for automatic device configuration.
The default setting for UPnP is enabled. If disabled, the router will not
allow any device to automatically control the resources, such as port
forwarding (mapping), of the router.
It is the period the router broadcasts its UPnP information.
The Advertisement Period is how often the router will advertise
(broadcast) its UPnP information. This value can range from 1 to 1440
minutes.
The default period is for 30 minutes. Shorter durations will ensure that
control points have current device status at the expense of additional
network traffic. Longer durations may compromise the freshness of the
device status but can significantly reduce network traffic.
It is the hop count of an UPnP data packet sent.
The time to live for the advertisement is measured in hops (steps) for
each UPnP packet sent. A hop is the number of steps allowed to
propagate for each UPnP advertisement before it disappears. The
number of hops can range from 1 to 255.
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