router vs packet forwarding [7:50471]
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=7i=50471t=50471 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: router vs packet forwarding [7:50471]
In a sense the NT box is acting as a router... I think by default it would only know the two networks that are attached (like a router would) but you can add your own routes to an NT/2000/XP box, effectively you could use it as a router that only understands static routes (although I think you could use RIP with them I'm not sure if I'm confusing NT/2000 with another OS)... Mike W. 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 ? Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7i=50484t=50471 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: router vs packet forwarding [7:50471]
Partially marketing, partially an ability to scale (general purpose os' generally tend to get burdened with tasks that deprive the routing threads of vital system resources). As a device that passes data between two L3 networks, and makes decisions based upon L3 header information, you can call it a router. As a device that is dedicated to, and designed for, routing, you probably wouldn't want to. They both forward packets. - Original Message - From: John Green To: Sent: 01 August 2002 6:03 pm Subject: router vs packet forwarding [7:50471] 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=7i=50505t=50471 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: router vs packet forwarding [7:50471]
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=7i=50511t=50471 -- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
