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I am not trying to turn this into a networking class, but
the information I get here is priceless, and I do want to use LINUX in
networking! I know that routers are used to transfer traffic from two
different networks that use different protocols. i.e. a LAN that used netbeui
connects to a router that connects it to the internet (TCP/IP) Does that mean that on each of the computers in the network,
TCP/IP would not be installed? For some reason that does not sound logical for
me, so what would be an example of traffic that is not tcp/ip that the router
would route to the outside network(internet?) Lets say that all the computers in the network are Linux
boxes J, and we
used tcp/ip as the protocol. Then we wanted to give interenet access to the
computers in this LAN. So we got a router (does it have to be a router?). how
would the router know if the traffic should be routed to the outside or if it
should stay within the computers of the LAN? Is it because of the use of a mask
or is it the use of LAN ip address that are different than what is available on
the internet? My last question is what is the use of switches and why would
salespeople try to sell that to you instead of a hub for a home network? Thank you ! |
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