Chapter 5

SpeedTouch™ Web Interface

5.5.3 Game & Application Sharing

Overview The Overview page summarizes the applications or games installed on a particular local host on your network, for which the SpeedTouch™ should accept inbound initiated connections coming from the Internet.

Configure On the Configure page, you can:

Select Use UPnP to enable UPnP on the SpeedTouch™.

UPnP provides NAT-Traversal: UPnP aware applications on a PC will automatically create Hyper-NAT entries on the SpeedTouch™ for incoming traffic on the protocol ports this type of traffic needs. As a consequence these applications are able to traverse the SpeedTouch™ without the need for extra and manual configuration.

UPnP is an architecture for transparent peer-to-peer connectivity of computers, intelligent appliances, and (wireless) devices. It enables seamless operation of a wide range of games and messaging applications.

For security reasons you are able to configure the UPnP policy towards

Windows XP and UPnP aware applications and Operating Systems.

In case you select the Use Extended Security check box, only limited UPnP operation between a host running MS Windows XP and the SpeedTouch™ is allowed: A local host is:

NOT allowed to connect/disconnect the SpeedTouch™ Internet Gateway

Device (IGD) connection.

Allowed to add/delete Hyper-NAT entries only for its own IP address, not for other local hosts.

If you clear the Use Extended Security check box, all UPnP- and IGD-based communication between any local host and the SpeedTouch™ is allowed.

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