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From: ykluger@HAWK.ULOWELL.EDU (Yoav Kluger)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Brouters
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Date: 23 Nov 88 13:47:03 GMT
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Hi,
I have been hearing lately too much the term BROUTER.
Is there a formal or even an informal but well agreed upon definition
for this creature?
  - Is it a bridge and a router in one box?
  - Is it a back-bone bridge?
  - Is it a bridge that does some LLC-header replacement (depending
    on the interface the packet is coming from and going to)?
  - Is it none of the above?

There was a bird-of-a-feather session about brouters in the conference,
which wasn't much helpful at all, and I haven't been able to find
this term in any of the literature I know of.

Could you help in this?

Thanks,

Yoav.