-----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-----