The complicated stuff is where the beauty of it all comes in: many different
routers,
may different clients, many different cities all needing to route together
with many
different protocols..... creating many different oppurtunities ;-)........
EA Louie wrote:
> 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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