On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:26:36AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> bravo good explanation Jim
Indeed, I was going to answer this, when I got to work... but Helmut and Jim
did a pretty good bang up job :)
So, Gareth, in effect, a router can be anything that joins two networks and
controls the traffic between. If you used an 'ethernet bridge', you'd spill
all your LAN traffic onto your DSL line, as Helmut implied.
Mike.
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