On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Owen DeLong" <[email protected]> > > >> A transparent router (sorry, poor choice of terminology on my part) is >> a router >> which doesn't NAT or become selectively opaque (firewall). In other >> words, >> it forwards packets and it doesn't do any other arbitrary things to >> them at the >> whim of the ISP, but, rather passes along what the customer gives it >> to the >> ISP and vice versa without interference. >> >> It differs from a bridge in that it terminates the collision and >> broadcast domains >> on either side of it. > > It differs from a bridge in that *it requires a chunk of routable IP space > to put behind it*, and a route to go there. For the specific situation > I posited, a consumer connection, you can get a static IP, but you *will > not* get routable space; you have to go to a business connection for that, > at 2-4 times the cost. >
That really depends on the ISP, doesn't it? Owen
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