On Aug 5, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@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.
That really depends on the ISP, doesn't it? Owen