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  This page is a description of the host manager interface and functionality.

  The host manager interface is reached by clicking on the Manage Hosts link in the navigation bar in any of the other interfaces in the application.

  The host manager interface displays a tabulated form in which each row represents the preferred configuration settings for the host named in the column labelled "interface". The settings and displays in each column are as follows:

• New:
    This column displays whether the host is newly discovered, requiring its settings to be confirmed before it will be enabled in the configuration.
• Host DMZ IP Address:
    This column displays the internal LAN/DMZ IP address of the host, as discovered by a scan run by the status page, covered in User Manual - Status.
• NAT:
    This setting determines what sort of Network Address Translation will be performed for the host. The "Serve and Browse" setting indicates that both Destination NAT and Source NAT should be performed for this host, translating its internal IP address to each of three external, routable, secondary IP addresses and vice versa, unique to the internal host, allowing the host to receive requests from the internet as well as make requests. The "Browse Only" setting indicates that only Source NAT should be performed for this host, translating its internal IP address to each of the three external, routable, primary IP addresses of the Advanced Router, only allowing the host to originate requests of the internet, not receive them, similar to proxying or or the function of a sharing gateway router. The "No Translation" setting indicates that no translation should be performed for this host, allowing the host to only make and receive requests of other hosts in the internal LAN/DMZ or subnets thereof, not of the internet.
• eth0 Translation:
    This setting indicates what address in the IP space of the routable ISP IP space connected to eth0 to translate to (and from). The selection of IP addresses is generated from the IP space as defined in the forms on the interface manager page, covered in User Manual - Interface Manager. This setting is only available when the "nat" column is set to "Serve and Browse". If "nat" is set to "Browse Only", this column will display the primary IP address of eth0, which will be the IP address to which requests originating from this host will be translated. If "nat" is set to "No Translation", this column will be empty.
• eth1 Translation:
    This column operates just as the "eth0 translation" column does, but for eth1.
• eth2 Translation:
    This column operates just as the "eth0 translation" column does, but for eth2.
• ... there may be further columns here for any extra interfaces/ISPs that may be added to the Advanced Router ...
• eth* Translation:
    This column operates just as the "eth0 translation" column does, but for the last external interface.

  When a host is newly detected, it will be listed in this interface in its default state: No Translation. In order to enable a such a host, select "Serve and Browse" or "Browse Only" from the select input in the NAT cell for the new host. After having made this selection, click the Save link in the control bar. The Advanced Router will save the setting to the database, automatically assigning a suggested setting for an appropriate translation array. At this point, the newly saved configuration has not yet been applied. Until it is, the active rules and routes remain just as they were before the changes were entered. The saved changes will not be made active until the configuration is applied in the Configuration Check interface, covered in User Manual - Configuration Check.

  The control bar offers two links. The first, Save, saves the currently entered settings to the database to be used to generate the configuration. The second, Revert, reloads the interface manager interface without saving the changes to the database, effectively reverting to the settings as they were when the page was first loaded. However, if there are unsaved changes, the Revert link will first ask the user for confirmation by loading a message into the message bar, which turns red. At the end of the confirmation message, there are two links. The Revert link reverts to the settings in the database, while the Cancel link returns the user to the host manager interface with the changes still loaded, but unsaved.

  The navigation bar offers links to Log Out, covered in User Manual - Log Out, Status, covered in User Manual - Status, Manage Interfaces, covered in User Manual - Interface Manager, Check and Apply Configuration, covered in User Manual - Configuration Check, Manage Passwords, covered in User Manual - Manage Passwords, this Manual, and the Bugs report/support forum for skyPipes application users. If there are any unsaved changes, all the navigation links except Manual and Bugs (which open new windows) will ask for a confirmation before navigating away, giving the user a chance to cancel the navigation and return to their unsaved changes intact.