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Network Access - Gateway Terminal

A gateway terminal is a special case of an output terminal (as described above). An appliance can have at most one gateway terminal. It is configured as regular output terminal in that the name resolves to the remote peer. In addition:

• The default route is set to be through the peer address to which the terminal is connected, so that connections to any address other than those belonging to regular terminals or those used by the default interface (the CA 3Tera AppLogic internal service network) are routed via the gateway output.
• The DNS nameserver is set to the gateway terminal's peer address.

Thus, an appliance with a gateway terminal can operate like a device connected to a regular LAN, intranet or WAN, within the limits of whatever name resolution and routing is provided by the gateway appliance connected to the terminal. (CA 3Tera AppLogic provides ready-made appliances that act as gateways, including one that provides un-restricted outgoing access to the Internet).