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- From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
- Subject: Re: Low cost ether/isdn brouters (was PC-NFS PPP Serial/ISDN driver wanted)
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- Organization: W S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Fremont CA
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:48:10 GMT
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- >Maybe bridging is the right answer for Appletalk, OSI, and so on. In
- >some cases, bridging may make sense for IP. But bridges are not a
- >universal solution.
-
- Not to start a war or anything, but I'm curious why do folks build
- bridges as opposed to routers. Is it to save the cost of writing the
- code to do the TCP/IP hacking or is it that they would need much more
- hardware to support the computional horsepower needed to unravel the
- upper level protocol and then wrap the data-packet back up?
-
- -wolfgang
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