Billion Electric Company BiPAC 7300GX User Manual

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Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and UPnP NAT Traversal

This protocol is used to enable simple and robust connectivity among stand-alone devices

and PCs from many different vendors, and it makes setting up a network simple and

affordable. UPnP architecture leverages TCP/IP and the Web to enable proximity

networking in addition to control and data transfer among networked devices. With this

feature enabled, you can seamlessly connect to Net Meeting or MSN Messenger.

Network Address Translation

Network Address Translation (NAT) allows multiple users to access outside resources such

as the Internet simultaneously with one IP address/one Internet access account. Many

application layer gateways (ALG) are supported such as web browser, ICQ, FTP, Telnet,

E-mail, News, Net2phone, Ping, NetMeeting, IP phone and others.

Firewall

NAT technology supports simple firewalls and provides options for blocking access from

the Internet, like Telnet, FTP, TFTP, WEB, SNMP and IGMP.

Domain Name System Relay

Domain Name System (DNS) relay provides an easy way to map a domain name with a

user-friendly name such as www.billion.com with an IP address. When a local machine sets

its DNS server to the router’s IP address, every DNS conversion request packet from the

PC to this router is forwarded to the real DNS on the outside network.

Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS)

The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname.

This dynamic IP address is the WAN IP address. To use the service, you must first apply for

an account from a DDNS service such as

http://www.dyndns.org/

PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

The BiPAC 7300GX provides an embedded PPPoE client function to establish a connection.

You get greater access speed without changing the operation concept, while sharing the

same ISP account and paying for one access account. No PPPoE client software is

required for the local computer. Automatic Reconnect and Disconnect Timeout (Idle Timer)

functions are also provided.