> On Jun 30, 2015, at 10:03 , Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> wrote: > > On 06/30/2015 07:28 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: >> There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX, >> DECnet, Appletalk, etc, but either they're not connected to the >> 'Internet', or their traffic passes through other devices that >> encapsulate and de-encapsulate it in IP to allow it to be transported. > > For the young (and the young at heart) those "other devices" were known as > "bridges" back in the day.
Not all of them… Some of them were “gateways” and occasionally you’d even encounter a “proxy”. Owen
