Billion Electric Company 5200N User Manual

 

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UPnP offers peer-to-peer network connectivity for PCs and other network devices, along 

with control and data transfer between devices. UPnP offers many advantages for users 

running NAT routers through UPnP NAT Traversal, and on supported systems makes tasks 

such as port forwarding much easier by letting the application control the required settings, 

removing the need for the user to control advanced configuration of their device. 

Both the user’s Operating System and the relevant application must support UPnP in 

addition to the router. Windows XP and Windows Me natively support UPnP (when the 

component is installed), and Windows 98 users may install the Internet Connection Sharing 

client from Windows XP in order to support UPnP. Windows 2000 does not support UPnP. 

 

 UPnP: Select this checkbox to activate UPnP. Be aware that anyone could use a UPnP 

application to open the web configurator's login screen without entering the BiPAC 5200N 's 

IP address 

 Auto-configured: Select this check box to allow UPnP-enabled applications to 

automatically configure the BiPAC 5200N so that they can communicate through the BiPAC 

5200N, 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.