Universal Plug & Play - Billion BEC MX-1000 User Manual

Universal Plug & Play
UPnP offers peer-to-peer network connectivity for PCs and other network devices, along with control
and data transfer between devices. UPnP offers many advantages for users running NAT routers
through UPnP NAT Traversal, and on supported systems makes tasks such as port forwarding much
easier by letting the application control the required settings, removing the need for the user to control
advanced configuration of their device.
Both the user's Operating System and the relevant application must support UPnP in addition to the
router. Windows XP and Windows ME natively support UPnP (when the component is installed), and
Windows 98 users may install the Internet Connection Sharing client from Windows XP in order to
support UPnP. Windows 2000 does not support UPnP.
UPnP: Select this checkbox to activate UPnP. Be aware that anyone could use a UPnP application to
open the web configuration's login screen without entering the MX-1000 IP address.
Auto-configured: Select this check box to allow UPnP-enabled applications to automatically
configure the MX-1000 so that they can communicate through the gateway, 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.