XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org   
      
   Le 17/04/2017 à 14:02, Dan Purgert a écrit :   
   >   
   > An Access Point.  A router is a completely different box, with a   
   > completely different purpose.   
   >   
   > Trouble is, nearly every SOHO "router" on the market is a router +   
   > switch + AP   
      
   + firewall + DHCP server + DNS server + file server + print server...   
      
   > these days, so people tend to say "router" when they mean   
   > something else ...   
      
   E.g. in this thread everyone seems to consider that a router is   
   implicitly a DHCP server. It's not. A router's job is only to maintain   
   routes and forward IP packets accordingly. Nothing else. All the rest is   
   only additional functions combined in the same box.   
      
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