On Thursday 20 March 2003 21:57, Mike Beattie wrote: > What do you class as a router? A router is in charge of routing packets > from one network onto another, and vice versa. Therefore, having only 2 > sockets is quite acceptable.
I thought the idea of a router was that it had to chose one particular route (ie. interface?) from a selection, based on rules (routing tables etc)... If there is only one in, and out, then... where does a routing decision need to be made? You're just linking 2 networks together.. if a packet hits one interface that's destined for the other network, you retransmit it on the other interface, otherwise you don't... it shouldn't even need to 'speak' IP (unlike a router?) .... sounds like an ethernet bridge to me, no? Cheers, Gareth ps. of course I have no idea if I'm right or not. That's why I'm posting ;-)
