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Posted by 0987431@gmail.com on June 24, 2008, 10:55 pm
Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> On 06/24/2008 05:06 PM, 0987431@gmail.com wrote:
>> 0987431@gmail.com wrote:
>>> A newb, studying a bit about routing.
>>>
>>> Specifically, I'm wondering how say, a given resident's router connects
>>> to the rest of the network. Does it go through a neighbor's say, or
>>> does it connect in one hop to a "company" router, and then say to other
>>> company routers (or not) before, if necessary, hitting another network's
>>> router. Does traffic exiting my router just go straight to the ISP's
>>> offices downtown (or where ever)?
>>>
>>> thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Stan
>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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>> Based on some more reading, I'm guessing a given customer's router is
>> "internal", does not communicate with other customers' routers.
>>
>> Stanly J. Skimhopper
>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
>
> A router or gateway, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router, though
> howsoever small and, or limited it may be in features and, or
> functionality, simply makes it possible for host(s) on one network talk
> to the host(s) on other network. Whereas, a network may have more than
> one router and router may connect more than two networks.
>
> A routers may have and, or perform default, static and, or dynamic
> routes and can discover and talk to other routers with the help of
> routing protocols, see
> http://www.cisco.com/public/technotes/tech_protocol.shtml
Thanks. I've found a pretty good resource in:
http://www.tcpipguide.com/
as well. The author disallows using something like wget to download the
site though. But, it appears to be good material.
Stan
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
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