On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 01:23 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > A transparent router (sorry, poor choice of terminology on my part) is > a router which doesn't NAT or become selectively opaque (firewall). In > other words, it forwards packets and it doesn't do any other arbitrary > things to them at the whim of the ISP, but, rather passes along what > the customer gives it to the ISP and vice versa without interference.
So... It's a router? I'm confused as to why the definition "router" exists to describe a device that NATs/selectively firewalls traffic, where "transparent router" describes something that just routes traffic. What?
