Well to tell you the truth a NT box with IP forwarding enabled and dual NIC cards is truely a router with L3 functinality. But Cisco or Juniper or Nortel add a lot of extra features in to the boxes to enhance the routing performance features like latency, QoS and stuff like that. These boxes are made to do only L3 functionailty not a NT box with 2 E or FE ports. A router can have virtually any kind of interface that can be thought off. A router has a much faster RAM called the Flash (expensive too). Now I would anyday use a NT box for computing only anad a specialist router to do L3 routing between networks. I am sure the amount of traffic that can pass through the L3 devices in todays networks (20/80 rule) will toast the NT box. Chaoo, Cisco_Maniac
""John Green"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > what is the difference between router and a device > that does packet forwarding between its interfaces. > > example: > can a plain NT box with two network cards (with IP > forwarding enabled) be called as a router ? or it is > just doing packet forwarding. > in my understanding even routers like say cisco router > does such packet forwarding though it can make a > decision on such packet forwarding based on a routing > protocol. would that be correct to say ? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=50511&t=50471 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
