ZyXEL Communications 2304R-P1 manual Prestige 2304 Support Notes, UPnP Operations

Prestige 2304 Support Notes

•Services: Services are provided by devices, such as time services provided by alarm clocks. In UPnP, services are described in XML format. Control points can set/get services information from devices.

•Control points: Control points can manipulate network devices When you add a new control point (in this case, a laptop) to a network, the device may ask the network to find UPnP-enabled devices. These devices respond with their URLs and device descriptions.

UPnP Operations

•Addressing: UPnPv1 devices MAY support IPv4, IPv6, or both. For IPv4, each devices should have DHCP client, when the device gets connected to the network, it will discover DHCP server on network to get an IP address. If not, then Auto-IP mechanism should be supported so that the device can give itself an IP address.(169.254.0.0/16)

•Discovery: Whenever a device is added on the network, it will advertise it's service over the network.

Control point can also discover services provided by devices.

•Description: Control points can get more detailed service information from devices' description in XML format. The description may include product name, model name, serial number, vendor ID, and embedded services...etc.

•Control: Devices can be manipulated by control points through Control message.

•Eventing: Devices can send event message to notify control points if there is any update on services provided.

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