James Knott wrote:
On 06/07/2016 03:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-06-07 21:19, James Knott wrote:
He was talking about announcing back to the WAN. That means back to the
ISP. I don't know how you read it otherwise. WAN in this case refers to the socket labelled "WAN" in that internal router, not to the real "WAN". It connects to LAN-1 And what does that "WAN" connect to? Unless I'm seriously mistaken, it connects to his ADSL modem, which in turn connects back to the ISP? Is
On 06/07/2016 03:16 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: there some other "WAN" in this context? The WAN of the internal router connects to the LAN of the ISP facing router.
LAN-1 LAN-2 internet---Router 1------------Router 2------ ISP WAN ··· LAN WAN ··· LAN
]> In this instance, there are 2 sides of a router, the LAN side and the ]> WAN. LAN means the local network and WAN faces the ISP. He says he has ]> to advertise to the WAN side. That means he has to send info back to ]> the ISP. There is no other possible meaning of that.
The WAN of router 2 advertises to LAN-1, not to the ISP.
Where does he say he has 2 routers?
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