Actually a brouter is a very old term...mid-late 80's to early 90's I believe. I have used the term in the past to describe devices that were bridges and not routers, but that did have some Layer 3 visibility. There were also devices called bridging routers ...ie routers that bridge..novel concept. In that same time frame there appeared to be some confusion as to exact terminology. Novell had a program called brgen that allowed you to "bridge" two subnets together. It was in fact a Layer 3 program because they connected two IPX subnets together. They later changed the name to routegen (i think...its been a while) to reflect the fact that it routed. Today everything just blends together. We have switches that were actually bridges and now switches have became routers. Interesting to watch how everything swirls together.
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Bill Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue 2/12/2002 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: router types I was wondering if anyone out there knows the difference in a router and brouter. I know what a router is but a brouter must be new.
