Administrator’s Handbook
TraceRoute - displays the path to a destination by showing the number of hops and the router addresses of these hops.
The system log also provides diagnostic information.
☛NOTE:
Your Service Provider may request information that you acquire from these various diagnostic tools. Individual tests may be performed at the command line. (See “Command Line Interface” on page 223.).
Security
Remote Access Control
You can determine whether or not an administrator or other authorized person has access to configuring your Gateway. This access can be turned on or off in the Web interface.
Password Protection
Access to your Motorola Netopia® device can be controlled through two access control accounts, Admin or User.
•The Admin, or administrative user, performs all configuration, management or maintenance operations on the Gateway.
•The User account provides monitor capability only.
A user may NOT change the configuration, perform upgrades or invoke maintenance functions.
Account usernames can now be changed for the Admin and User accounts.
Network Address Translation (NAT)
The Motorola Netopia® Gateway Network Address Translation (NAT) security feature lets you conceal the topology of a
Only a single WAN IP address is required to provide this security support for your entire LAN.
LAN sites that communicate through an Internet Service Provider typically enable NAT, since they usually purchase only one IP address from the ISP.
•When NAT is ON, the Motorola Netopia® Gateway “proxies” for the end computer stations on your net- work by pretending to be the originating host for network communications from
The Motorola Netopia® Gateway tracks which local hosts are communicating with which remote hosts. It routes packets received from remote networks to the correct computer on the LAN (Ethernet) interface.
