Section 3

General

Security

Password Protection

Access to your Cayman device is controlled through two access control accounts, Admin or User.

The Admin, or administrative user, performs all configuration, manage- ment 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.

For the security of your connection, an Admin password must be set on the Cayman unit.

Network Address Translation (NAT)

The Cayman Gateway Network Address Translation (NAT) security feature lets you conceal the topology of a hard-wired Ethernet or wireless network connected to its LAN interface from routers on networks connected to its WAN interface. In other words, the end computer stations on your LAN are invisible from the Internet.

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 Cayman Gateway “proxies” for the end com- puter stations on your network by pretending to be the originating host for network communications from non-originating networks. The WAN interface address is the only IP address exposed.

The Cayman 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 A) interface.

When NAT is OFF, a Cayman Gateway acts as a traditional TCP/IP router, all LAN computers/devices are exposed to the Internet.

A diagram of a typical NAT-enabled LAN is shown below:

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