On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Gareth Williams wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2003 09:06, Mike Beattie wrote: ... > > 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.
Ooops - what did I imply? Not this, hopefully. Well the terminology "two networks" is not really clear enough. One should probably speak of "two or more (logical) subnets". A bridge has nothing to do with subnets, it only joins (or separates if you like) segments. > Um, would you? I thought the *purpose* of an ethernet bridge was to > keep two networks seperate, and only pass data between them that > needed to be. An Not networks, but segments. Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 03 - 388 39 54 | +----------------+
