TP-Link manual 5.7Security, UPnP, TL-R402M Cable/DSL Router User Guide

TL-R402MCable/DSL Router User Guide

5.6.4 UPnP

The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) feature allows the devices, such as Internet computers, to access the local host resources or devices as needed. UPnP devices can be automatically discovered by the UPnP service application on the LAN. You can configure UPnP on this page shown in Figure 5-18:

Figure 5-18 UPnP Settings

¾Enable UPnP - UPnP can be enabled or disabled by clicking the Enable or Disable button. As allowing this may present a risk to security, this feature is disabled by default

¾Current UPnP Settings Table - this table displays the current UPnP information

¾App Description - The description provided by the application in the UPnP request

¾External Port - External port, which the router opened for the application

¾Protocol - Which type of protocol is opened

¾Internal Port - Internal port, which the router opened for local host

¾IP Address - The UPnP device that is currently accessing the router

¾Status - Either Enabled or Disabled, “Enabled” means that port is still active, otherwise, the port is inactive

Click Refresh to update the Current UPnP Settings List.

5.7Security

-Security

yFirewall

yIP Filter

yDomain Filter

yMAC

yRemote Management

yPing from WAN

Figure 5-19 The Security menu

There are six submenus under the Security menu (shown in Figure 5-19):Firewall, IP Address Filtering, Domain Filtering, MAC Filtering, Remote Management and Ping from WAN. Click any of them, and you will be able to configure the corresponding function. The detailed explanations for each submenu are provided below.

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