Chapter 17 Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP)

When a UPnP device joins a network, it announces its presence with a multicast message. For security reasons, the ZyXEL Device 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 the following sections for examples of installing and using UPnP.

17.2 The UPnP Screen

Use the following screen to configure the UPnP settings on your ZyXEL Device. Click Access Management > UPnP to display the screen shown next.

Figure 52 Access Management > UPnP

The following table describes the fields in this screen.

Table 38 Access Management > UPnP

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

UPnP

Use this field to enable or disable UPnP. Be aware that anyone could

 

use a UPnP application to open the web configurator's login screen

 

without entering the ZyXEL Device's IP address (although you must still

 

enter the password to access the web configurator).

 

 

Auto-configured

Use this field to allow or disable UPnP-enabled applications to

 

automatically configure the ZyXEL Device so that they can

 

communicate through the ZyXEL Device, 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.

 

 

SAVE

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

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