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Metric: It represents the cost of transmission for routing purposes. The number need not

be precise, but it must be between 1 and 15.

Announced in RIP: This parameter determines if the Prestige will include the route to the

remote node in its RIP broadcasts. Set “Yes”, it is kept private and is not included in RIP

broadcasts. Set “No”, the remote node will be propagated to other hosts through RIP

broadcasts.

4.3.2 NAT

The NAT (Network Address Translation - NAT, RFC 1631) is the translation of the IP address

of a host in a packet. The default setting is Dynamic NAPT. It provides dynamic Network

Address Translation capability between LAN and multiple WAN connections, and the LAN