router contains a built-in switch versus router without a built-in switch
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From: David H. Lipman on 18 Sep 2005 18:31 From: "Leythos" <void(a)nowhere.lan> >> >> Actually... >> >> The MAY contain any or all of these. It all depends on makes and models. >> For example the Estwll 327W is both a DSL modem in Bridge mode and a DSL Modem/Router >> when placed in Router mode. | | That would make it more than a NAT Router then :) | | -- | | spam999free(a)rrohio.com | remove 999 in order to email me Well Westell is known for making DSL modems. The product lines are morphing and assimilating. It is the Borgs ! ;-) -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
From: David H. Lipman on 19 Sep 2005 09:52 From: "CJT" <abujlehc(a)prodigy.net> >> >> I agree. Greater versitility and no single point of failure. >> | No single point of failure? How so? | If the Router+modem goes both are dead. If you separate products and the Router dies, you can still connect at least one PC to the modem. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
From: David H. Lipman on 19 Sep 2005 12:22 From: "CJT" <abujlehc(a)prodigy.net> | So then the modem is a single point of failure. | | -- | The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to | minimize spam. Our true address is of the form che...(a)prodigy.net. Well there is always a weak link in any chain. It is admittedly a weak argument but the versatility argument isn't. My father has a Westell 2200 ADSL modem+Router but it is in Bridge Mode and he's using a Linksys BEFSR41 v3 Router. I have a White Westell (modem only and have had it for over 5.5 years w/o any failures) and use a Linksys BEFSR81 v1 Router. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
From: Volker Birk on 20 Sep 2005 00:24 In comp.security.firewalls jameshanley39(a)yahoo.co.uk wrote: > The NAT device/home router, would still have an IP address, so it > wouldn't be a switch. Most of the managed switches I'm using have an IP address. > The home router would still respond to an ARP request - for its MAC > address, given its IP address. A switch would not do that. Most of the managed switches I'm using are doing that. And for what I can see, most SOHO routers will do just switching and are managable, if you switch of routing functionality. Yours, VB. -- "Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert". Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag"
From: Volker Birk on 20 Sep 2005 00:26
David H. Lipman <DLipman~nospam~@verizon.net> wrote: [No single point of failure] > | So then the modem is a single point of failure. > Well there is always a weak link in any chain. No. Just buy two modems. Yours, VB. -- "Es kann nicht sein, dass die Frustrierten in Rom bestimmen, was in deutschen Schlafzimmern passiert". Harald Schmidt zum "Weltjugendtag" |