USRobotics NETServer/8 - Manual (Page 36)

3-6 Configuration Overview
Overview of configurable tables
This section contains a brief description of each of the
NETServer’s internal databases.
Global Configuration
The Global Configuration table lets you configure parameters
that apply to all ports, such as the Name Service (if any) your
network uses, default gateways through which to forward
packets, and so on. You can also set the Global Default Host that
login users may establish a session with, as well as the
NETServer’s password.
RADIUS Configuration
The Global Configuration table also allows you to designate a
RADIUS security server. A RADIUS security server will allow
you to maintain users in a single, centralized users file rather
than updating the users tables for several different NETServers
independently.
You may also specify a RADIUS network accounting server.
Hosts Table
The Hosts Table is a list of local hosts. The table is used to
translate names to IP addresses and vice versa. This allows
users and administrators to type host names rather than ad-
dresses.
This is especially useful if the network does not have a name
service such as NIS or DNS. If your network has a name server,
the NETServer tries to match the host name with an IP address
using the Hosts Table before using the name server.
Note that IPX networks do not use this table since SAP auto-
matically provides the functionality of a name service.