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Chapter 11 UPnP
Basic Home Station VDSL2 P8701T User’s Guide
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When a UPnP device joins a network, it announces its presence with a multicast message. For
security reasons, the VDSL Router 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.
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 Section 11.3 on page 150 for examples of installing and using UPnP.
11.2 The UPnP Screen
Use the following screen to enable or disable UPnP on your VDSL Router. Click Wireless network
> Classic configuration > Advanced Setup > UPnP to display the screen shown next.
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Network Setting > Home Networking > UPnP
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
11.3 Installing UPnP in Windows XP Example
This section shows how to install UPnP in Windows Windows XP.
1
Click Start and Control Panel.
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Network Setting > Home Networking > UPnP
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Enable UPnP Select this to allow UPnP-enabled applications to automatically configure the VDSL Router
so that they can communicate through the VDSL Router 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.
Be aware that anyone could use a UPnP application to open the web configurator's login
screen without entering the VDSL Router's IP address (although you must still enter the
password to access the web configurator).
Apply/Save Click this to save your changes.