Additional Network Configuration

OpenRG does not require further configuration in order to start working. After the setup described in this chapter, you can immediately start using your gateway to:

• Share a broadband connection among multiple users (HTTP, FTP, Telnet, NetMeeting) and between all of the computers connected to your home network.
• Build a home network by connecting additional PCs and network devices to the gateway.
• Share resources (file servers, printers, etc.) between computers in the home network using their names; auto-learning DNS enables OpenRG to automatically detect the network identification names of the LAN PCs, enabling mutual communication using names, not IP addresses.
• Control network parameters, including DHCP, DNS and WAN settings.
• View network status, traffic statistics, system log and more.
• Allow access from the Internet to games and other services provided by computers in the home network.
• Prohibit computers in the home network from accessing selected services on the Internet.
• Block access to specific Internet Web sites from your home network.

Advanced users can fully configure and control OpenRG via the Web-based management. Chapter 4 serves as an introduction to the Web-based management; in depth module-specific information is available throughout chapters 5 - 11.10.