RE: router types

[Galina Pildush]

Yes, I agree with you Ed.  The word brouter is quite old.  It had been more of a marketing ploy than anything else.  The idea was to make people believe that a brouter is faster than a router, when doing Layer 2 switching.  In reality, though, those devices still needed to do packet processing (those ones that used to do it in software) and "understand" that they need to use bridging software, instead of routing software.   Regards.   Galina. -----Original Message----- From: Ed Mier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:01 AM To: 'Bill Cunningham' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: router types BROUTER = combined bridge and router.  It was common a few years ago, when multiple concurrent protocol stacks were running over an enterprise data network (not then an Intranet), to route some protocols (IP, IPX, DECnet, etc.) and bridge others (Netbeui/Netbios, etc.).  Today almost everything's running over or tunneled in IP.   ed mier -----Original Message----- From: Bill Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.