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December 4th, 2004, 06:23 PM
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December 4th, 2004, 08:04 PM
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December 4th, 2004, 08:21 PM
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Thanks nihil ...
Wat about calling Router a Network Layer Device ???
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December 4th, 2004, 08:23 PM
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As nihil said (but in a different way) a router can be just a router or it also can be a gateway. Gateway meaning whatever connects you to the internet (in my understanding any way).
But then again, a cable modem (or DSL modem) could also be your gateway. A PC that other boxes are connected to and providing the internet connection for them, would also be a gateway.
But, I will disagree with the fine english gentalman in the pronunciation of router. Route (as in route 66) is pronounced 'rowt' so a router should be pronounced 'rowter' and the channel cuting wood working tool should also be pronounce 'rowter'. Rooter being a fan at a british football game (not to be considered the same a a rowdy at an american football game) (or vise~a~versa)
But what can you expect from a country that pronounces Lieutenant as Leftenant, although the discription implied is probably correct.
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December 4th, 2004, 08:35 PM
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December 4th, 2004, 08:40 PM
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Originally posted here by moxnix
But, I will disagree with the fine english gentalman in the pronunciation of router. Route (as in route 66) is pronounced 'rowt' so a router should be pronounced 'rowter' and the channel cuting wood working tool should also be pronounce 'rowter'. Rooter being a fan at a british football game (not to be considered the same a a rowdy at an american football game) (or vise~a~versa)
But what can you expect from a country that pronounces Lieutenant as Leftenant, although the discription implied is probably correct.
Have got to disagree with the above, and agree with nihil on this. In the UK "Route (as in route 66) is pronounced 'root' ", regardless of which part of the UK one is from. I must admit I have never heard of a fan at a British football game, (assume you means real football,what you would call soccer and not the American variety) being termed a rooter
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December 4th, 2004, 09:00 PM
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Originally posted here by jm459
Have got to disagree with the above, and agree with nihil on this. In the UK "Route (as in route 66) is pronounced 'root' ", regardless of which part of the UK one is from. I must admit I have never heard of a fan at a British football game, (assume you means real football,what you would call soccer and not the American variety) being termed a rooter
jm459, comman pronuniation in the states is to pronounce route (as in route 66) as root also. Although the 'proper' school taught pronunciation is 'rowt'. Even in the old jingle for the show Route 66 was pronounced 'root'. Add regional accents to that and you would find several different pronuniations of the word.
And I purposely scrambled the order of rooter and rowdy, as we have not had any riots (that I am aware of) in any (American style) football game, yet (English football ~soccer) has quite a few riots by its fans( hense the rowdies).
Because of the multipal word pronunciations and the different collocial word usage in english (not to even mention slang) make english one of the hardest langueges to learn, much less to keep up with.
So my comments were more tongue in cheek than serious in any way.
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December 6th, 2004, 04:02 PM
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The "correct" pronunciation depends where you're from just like many other words. Where I'm from it would be pronounced "rowter" just like the wood working tool. "roooter" is not something I've ever heard used for anything except Roto-Rooter - the company that cleans the roots out of my sewer system every few years.
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December 6th, 2004, 04:10 PM
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I woudl think that the main difference between a router and a gatweay is that a router just routes traffic. Most gateways do that too, but they generall also perform application-layer proxying services for things like FTP and HTTP.
A gateway doesn't necsarrily connect clients behind it to the Internet, though, although it usually does. It might perhaps be a gateway between two or more large divisions within a coporate network, a kind of shortcut. The *Internet* gateway then is the gate through which all the Internet traffic must pass.
And In North America the router (both the network device and the woodworking device) are pronounced and spelled the same. It confuses me when I am told things like "go look under that router for it"
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December 6th, 2004, 06:26 PM
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[on the sidetopic] Route is a dual pronounciation noun. Route (Route 66 - root) Route (My child has a paper route - rowt). I'm not completely certain how the Brits decided to pronounce it for Router, but given their left-handed driving, I'm not surprised in the least if they pronounce it 'rooter'. (You say 'mayters, I say mahters, let's call the bloody thing off').[/on the sidetopic]
From my limited understanding, a gateway is comprised of a csu/dsu to set up for highspeed internet access or a wan link, and usually had a router immediately 'behind' them to act as firewall. A router sets up routing tables and acts as the 'traffic cop' for a network. I have no doubt in this day and age that they can be (and are) combined in certain circumstances, but in old school, they were two very different devices.
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