Re: Silly Question

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:11:21 -0800, "John Weiss"
<jrweiss98155NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A router works as a DHCP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) server, assigning IP
addresses to the client machines and routing the data packets to the appropriate
machines. It also works as a hardware firewall using NAT (Network Address
Translation), isolating the computers from the Internet. Many routers also
incorporate SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) as an additional firewall step. A
simple switch will do none of these.

Many modems have all that built in these days.


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