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The vast majority of the times I hear the word "router" nowadays, it refers to the box everyone with broadband internet has at home, connecting the internet (vi
by jtheory 13y ago
The vast majority of the times I hear the word "router" nowadays, it refers to the box everyone with broadband internet has at home, connecting the internet (via DSL/cable modem) and the home network (via ethernet/wifi).
Are you saying that's not a router? I'm pretty sure there are more of those deployed than the big kind.
- fulafel 13y agoThis is probably the most authoritative source in the Internet context: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1812.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1812.txt Like the RFC says, routing is forwarding IP packets unmodified. If you mess with the insides of the packets, you're just a no good packet munging middlebox.