Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:32 pm, James Knott wrote:
> Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > Really? 'Didn't know? ALL routers, no matter what make will hand out DNS
> > addresses.....so will most HUBS. MANY HUBS will even do NAT.
>
> ???
>
> Lessee know, according to my calendar, April 1 was a few weeks back.
>
> Perhaps you're wrong?

Not a chance. ;)

> I've never heard of a hub that's capable of anything more that

Check out BestBuy and other stores sometime.

> regenerating and distributing packets.  Also, a router does nothing more
> than forward layer 3 packets.  Those Linksys and other boxes, include
> several functions, which *MIGHT* include DNS.

You don't know much about hardware, I suspect.

Fred

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