Universal Plug & Play - Billion BiPAC 6300VNOZ User Manual

4.4.4.3 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 BIPAC 6300VNOZ' IP address
Auto-configured: Select this check box to allow UPnP-enabled applications to automatically configure the
BIPAC 6300VNOZ so that they can communicate through the BIPAC 6300VNOZ, 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.
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