Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Routers vs. Bridges
Message-ID: <3076@phri.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 23:07:33 GMT
References: <12357379979.12.RADIA@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU> <173@quick.COM>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <173@quick.COM> srg@quick.COM (Spencer Garrett) writes:
> Actually, it's pretty easy to tell whether a box is a gateway (router)
> or just a bridge.  If it has a network address, it's a gateway.  If it
> doesn't, it's a bridge.

	I'm really out of my league here, so don't hesitate to correct me
if I'm wrong, but isn't it possible to have a bridge which has no IP
address of its own as far as moving packets around goes, but does have an
IP address for communicating with the box for control purposes?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016