This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: >Jeff Waugh wrote: > >>quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > >>>After advice given here, but for other reasons too, I got a adsl-router >>>rather than an adsl-bridge to tigger. >>> >>>What I've lost is name virtual hosts. My router (dlink 604T) does suitable >>>virtual hosting, but all the necessary name information is lost before it >>>gets routed to apache2. ie router:80 -> 192.168.1.254:80 >>> >>>Is there a way of hosting multiple sites with a router? >> >>Your router only forwards to addresses and ports. It knows nothing of the >>protocol you're forwarding. >> > >This statement is not only confusing but completely wrong. > >Any router knows the IP protocol of the message it is forwarding contrary >to the above statement. Specifically, any router knows IP protocol since >the Internet is an IP network.
You know as well as anyone that Jeff meant "protocol" in the "HyperText Transfer Protocol" sense; application layer protocols. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
