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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:06:34 +1030

Re: "Host based" routers and BGP

On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:37:32AM +1030, Jason Tan wrote:

 > A router is a thing that routes. Ie it moves packets from one network to
 > another at the (logical) network level (typically ip).
 > What harware or software it runs is not all that important as to what it
 > is.

Agreed.  But it is overwhelmingly important as to where you'd want to use 
it :-)

   - mark

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