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   Pascal Hambourg to All   
   Re: How does setting a static IP on a mo   
   17 Apr 17 15:56:00   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org   
      
   Le 17/04/2017 à 14:57, Carlos E.R. a écrit :   
   > On 2017-04-17 14:31, Pascal Hambourg wrote:   
   >> Le 17/04/2017 à 14:02, Dan Purgert a écrit :   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   Such assumptions lead to misleading generalizations.   
      
   > All those I have seen do include a DHCP server and a DNS cache server   
   > (not a DNS server).   
      
   A DNS cache server is a DNS server. What do you mean ?   
      
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