From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:26:28AM +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
>> The cablemodem cannot do NAT, but it does have the possibility of
>> routing up to 16 or 32 real IPs, provided your ISP will sell them to
>> you. Thus you can have 202.0.37.2 and .3, and the cablemodem will
>> route each IP to an internal machine. But P/TC don't do that...
>> Maybe when IPv6 is out....
>Routing? On a device you called a bridge? Be careful with your
terminology.
Pedantic time...
Can you bridge two IPs on one side and the internet on the other?
>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
route
<networking> /root/ The sequence of {hosts}, {routers},
{bridges}, {gateways}, and other devices that network traffic
takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As
a verb, to determine the link down which to send a {packet},
that will minimise its total journey time according to some
{routeing algorithm}.
bridge
<networking, hardware> A device which forwards traffic between
{network segments} based on {data link layer} information.
These segments would have a common {network layer} address.
Every network should only have one {root bridge}. See also {gateway},
{router}.
It seems to me that the cablemodem IS a bridge, and traffic GETS routed over
the bridge (no relation to Nick Rout.)
Anyway... You get the idea that there can be up to 32 computers on the rj45
ethernet socket side of your cablemodem, if the ISP configures it (which
paradise don't.)
