ZyXEL Communications VMG1312-B Series - 8.2 The LAN Setup Screen

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• Assigning lease tim es to m appings
Windows Messenger is an exam ple of an application that supports NAT traversal and UPnP.
See the
Chapt er 11 on page 185 for m or e inform at ion on NAT.
Cautions with UPnP
The autom at ed nature of NAT traversal applicat ions in est ablishing t heir own services and opening
firewall port s m ay present net work security issues. Net work inform ation and configurat ion m ay also
be obtained and m odified by users in som e net w ork environm ent s.
When a UPnP device joins a network, it announces its presence wit h a m ulticast m essage. For
securit y reasons, the Device allows m ulticast m essages on the LAN only.
All UPnP- enabled devices m ay com m unicate freely wit h each ot her wit hout addit ional configuration.
Disable UPnP if this is not your int ent ion.
UPnP and ZyXEL
ZyXEL has achieved UPnP certificat ion from the Universal Plug and Play Forum UPnP™
I m plem enters Corp. ( UI C). ZyXEL's UPnP im plem ent at ion supports I nternet Gat eway Device (I GD)
1.0.
See
Section 8.5 on page 147 for exam ples of inst alling and using UPnP.
Finding Out More
See
Section 8.10 on page 157 for technical background inform at ion on LANs.
8.1.3 Before You Begin
Find out the MAC addresses of your network devices if you intend to add them to the DHCP Client
List screen.
8.2 The LAN Setup Screen
Use t his screen to set the Local Area Net work I P address and subnet m ask of your Device. Click
N et w ork Set t in g > Hom e Ne t w or k ing t o open t he LAN Se t up screen.
Follow these steps t o configure your LAN set t ings.
1 Ent er an I P address int o the I P Addr ess field. The I P address m ust be in dott ed decim al not ation.
This will becom e t he I P address of your Device.
2 Ent er the I P subnet m ask int o the I P Subnet Ma sk field. Unless instruct ed otherwise it is best to
leave this alone, t he configurat or will aut om atically com pute a subnet m ask based upon the I P
address you ent ered.