XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-17 14:31, Pascal Hambourg wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   I assume a home router, or ISP access router or some similar wording.   
   All those I have seen do include a DHCP server and a DNS cache server   
   (not a DNS server). Most also had a firewall, often disabled.   
      
   I don't assume pure routers like an enterprise level Cisco.   
      
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