What is SUA? Single User Account (SUA) allows multiple workstations on your LAN to access the Internet for the price of an individual account. SUA accomplishes this through a mechanism called Network Address Translation (NAT) that makes your whole LAN appear as a single host to the Internet. You may hear other names such as ¡§IP masquerading¡¨ or ¡§IP sharing¡¨, but basically they mean the same thing. If your ISP assigns you no address at all or only one IP address, then you have a single user account, and so you must enable SUA. You can designate one inside server machine on your LAN to be accessible to the outside world under SUA. Please note that this one machine can host multiple services, e.g., you can run a web server, an FTP server and a telnet server all on one machine. SUA offers the added benefit of firewalling if you do not define a server. All incoming inquiries will be filtered out by the Prestige, thus preventing outsiders from probing your network. Please note that outbound traffic will not be affected whether you define an inside server or not.

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