Cayman Systems 2E-W, User Manual

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About Your Cayman 2E-W Cayman 2E-W User’s Guide
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November 2000
Full-featured wide-area network bridge supports non-TCP/IP
protocols.
Network Address Translation (NAT) lets your workgroup
network share one IP address when communicating with other
hosts on your corporate network or the Internet.
Support for a NAT default server lets your Cayman 2E-W direct
NAT traffic to a specified host on your network.
Network Address Translation (NAT) conceals the topology of
your local area network from outside hackers while offering full
Internet access to LAN clients.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client
functionality lets a host on your Wide Area Network (WAN)
configure the IP address and other network settings for the WAN
interface on your Cayman 2E-W automatically.
DHCP server functionality lets the Cayman 2E-W automatically
configure the IP address and other network settings for
computers on your Local Area Network.
DHCP relay agent functionality lets devices on the Local Area
Network obtain network address information from a DHCP
server on the WAN without any user setup at the workstation.
IP pinholes let you provide web services from your Local Area
Network without sacrificing network security.
Bandwidth shaping lets carriers and service providers regulate
the amount of WAN traffic.
Support for Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) lets
you connect to an Internet Service Provider using well-defined
protocols.
Diagnose utility simplifies identification and resolution of
network problems.
Cayman 2E-W configuration pages automatically warn you if an
administrator password has not been set.