No, not really, Mike ;-)
If you think about it, that's all a router does. It resolves hardware
addresses to network addresses, and decides on the best path for a packet to
take. It also accepts advertisements from other routers which have done the
same thing. This was described to me years ago by a good friend who was in
the TAC. Simplicity. All the other complicated stuff is just extentions of
the basic function.
-e-
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael L. Williams
To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: What is a router? [7:11857]
> You're just trying to stir up a big thread aren't you? =)
>
> Mike W.
>
> "EA Louie" wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chuck Larrieu
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > To whit, what does a router do, and how does it do it?
> > >
> >
> > It's a big ARP table, and it does it by associating network addresses
with
> > an interface
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