Chapter 11 Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP)
When a UPnP device joins a network, it announces its presence with a multicast message. For
security reasons, the ZyXEL Device allows multicast messages on the LAN only.
All UPnP-enabled devices may communicate freely with each other without additional
configuration. Disable UPnP if this is not your intention.
11.2 UPnP and ZyXEL
ZyXEL has achieved UPnP certification from the Universal Plug and Play Forum UPnP™
Implementers Corp. (UIC). ZyXEL's UPnP implementation supports Internet Gateway Device
(IGD) 1.0.
See the following sections for examples of installing and using UPnP.
11.2.1 Configuring UPnP
Click UPnP to display the screen shown next.
Figure 27 Configuring UPnP
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 18 Configuring UPnP
LABEL
Enable the Universal Plug
and Play (UPnP) Service
Allow users to make
configuration changes
through UPnP
Apply
Cancel
11.3 Installing UPnP in Windows
This section shows how to install UPnP in Windows Me and Windows XP.
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DESCRIPTION
Select this checkbox to activate UPnP. Be aware that anyone could use
a UPnP application to open the web configurator's login screen without
entering the ZyXEL Device's IP address (although you must still enter
the password to access the web configurator).
Select this check box to allow UPnP-enabled applications to
automatically configure the ZyXEL Device so that they can
communicate through the ZyXEL Device, for example by using NAT
traversal, UPnP applications automatically reserve a NAT forwarding
port in order to communicate with another UPnP enabled device; this
eliminates the need to manually configure port forwarding for the UPnP
enabled application.
Click Apply to save the setting to the ZyXEL Device.
Click Cancel to return to the previously saved settings.
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