----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> 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. > > It differs from a bridge in that it terminates the collision and > broadcast domains > on either side of it. It differs from a bridge in that *it requires a chunk of routable IP space to put behind it*, and a route to go there. For the specific situation I posited, a consumer connection, you can get a static IP, but you *will not* get routable space; you have to go to a business connection for that, at 2-4 times the cost. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
