-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:59 AM, Tom Hill wrote:
> 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? In the context of taking about CPE gear, it does seem wise to make the distinction. I suppose we can thank Linksys for that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOO7Y5AAoJEDSV5GS4KsJ4HeYIAIgFepq6FE58MXrUNXDrLxmq HojnMUmcjMuK1esyYwLTRUP5C8rGeGrvLRTABdVyilPuSwGcWZAs3lae+GTOutHF Q9vLn5czh/G56xBC+S+ksFBbkTplPP6T9O2rWWTJE4jZxrB947HeJeD1r0s1MLnc pHiIac2VNIhQngZviIREYa6SYrg0k+XYhgVIKJluVEeyk8YRaBueHkyADKQ1mpmq xbfXz0Xcc2RcPvEcLuVf46J8NE2fkE57c1/BlW2WnIcU5hg9Fr1PPxJ2qm83s+S6 OpgRyMfctSzGTg24RU06pcRvIdfZSduM17yBbo4vP6f5ka2c0CowUl180w8C8tc= =V1dA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
