What is a router?

[warnzie]

Hay guys...another stupid Q...what is a good definition of a router..Thanks Nathy

 

[mikesgroovin]

Many of us here should be able to give you a good definition, however there are some other resources out there that also provide real-time definitions. I only make this suggestion because we will always take a little longer than a google search...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=define:Router

But if you have any other tehnical related questions....please ask us

-Mike

 

[linux1880]

router is a device(computer) that connect 2-million network together. Nothing more than that.

 

[milen]

Router is small/big box which is routting

 

[majistic]

Router is something that breaks ure internet connection down so that you can share it among a network on differnet computers and they all can be on the internet at once. www.webopedia.com

 

[Djadragon]

router is like a hub

 

[kboy]

All good Answers!!!!LOL

 

[milen]

For this question what else?

Djadragon hub and router is completely diferent things.

Router is hendle the request for out side your LAN pages or resources.

Hub Is making LAN
Router is conecting LANS

 

[becroydon]

i thought a hub was for connecting 2 or more networks/computers with different protocols

 

[squirrelly1]

Well.......

A HUB is more or less a boxed formof early "bus networking" where computers were all connected to the same "network wire" and listening for activity and data collision was the job of the individual network adapters...

EARLY BUS ARCHITECTURE

computer 1 computer 2 computer 3
|____________|___________| <- network wire

This is what a Hub actually does...

A switch is a little more complex... but I won't go into that as it is way off topic...

A router is a little more than a hub or a switch... It actually handles data translation accross the network nodes and can even have some "smart" features enabled such as IP traffic blocking, DHCP, and yes, even internet connection sharing...

But as it was said in the 1st reply... there are better places to learn about stuff in detail than a forum...

Squirrelly1