TetherNet News

Jan. 2004

Version 2.0

New Features

• Auto-scan bi-directional handshake to find available ports through firewall
• Automatic renew subnet lease:
  • saved state (rental parameters)
  • survive DHCP renumbering on the WAN port uplink
  • auto-retry upon connection disruption
  • auto-lease upon reboot
• Automatic web redirect to Tethernet rental page
• Supports MAC address cloning
• Defaults to non-NAT mode prior to rental
• More intuitive on-box LED blinking pattern

Sep. 2002

Version 1.0

Main Features

• Web-based GUI
• Auto Configuration
  • Random or user-configurable port selection
  • DHCP Server with configurable dynamic address range
  • DNS cache
  • Routing
  • Automatically cleanup leases after connection timeout
• Subnet Features
  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • IPv4 and IPv6 multicast
  • Fair bandwidth allocation for active addresses
• Security
  • Secure (TCP/SSL) configuration exchange
  • Hardware-accelerated ecrypted tunnels with AES, DES, 3DES, etc.
  • Password protection for designated blocks
• Box Features
  • Supports NAT mode prior to rental
  • Supports WiFi 802.11b with optional WEP
  • Extensive monitoring status accessible through GUI

Notes

Please refer to the TetherNet documentation for further information on these features.