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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 22:08:48 GMT
Guy Doesn't Know What He's Doing
This CISCO RVS4000 Router gets reviewed once in awhile, and I always sit here blinking at the setting:
MODE: Mode of Operation - Router or Gateway.
It is set to "Gateway" because that's the way it was set in the first place before I even looked.
But it's a so-called "router", isn't it?
The rinky-dink manual that came with it simply names all kinds of settings it has and skips the part about educating the user to what settings mean or what they do.
When I was a kid we went to see "Cisco Kid" movies, but he has long since been sent back to Mexico by someone like Trump, yet here is his CISCO Router causing confusion.
I'm afraid to change the mode setting to "router" because it might create chaos.
Can the ALPB help with this question?
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Post by Boomer on May 18, 2018 23:23:32 GMT
Cisco, kid, was a friend of mineGateway mode is mostly used to manage your connections between your home network and the internet, where it sits in between the two sides and acts like a manager of what passes through, hence 'Gateway'. Router mode manages connections between computers in your home. If you send files from one computer to another through a router, the router knows which computer to send them to. A router can also be used to add more devices to your network. On Howard Stern, prank call master Sal, as Trump, called a Mexican construction company for help with the biggest project you've ever had, and it was revealed to be the Wall between the US and Mexico. Some tension ensued..  I liked how you played Phil Hendrie as Art Bell on the Sunday Morning News show Carl. Boomer
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Post by sparepart on May 19, 2018 1:22:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 2:44:25 GMT
Caught in a Retail Trick
spareparts is on top of the situation: "CISCO End-of-Life Notice"
The same week I purchased the router from a favorite vendor CISCO declared end of life for it.
And thank you Boomer for the notes about "gateway" and "router"... I guess I've got it configured right by your description.
I saw the mailman today and thought he might be delivering an end of life notice for me.
This whole internet thing has us captured and we can't escape!
The ALPB is in on it!
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2018 2:13:59 GMT
Carl. Just seeing this now but I'll throw in my 2 cents. When I started working as a systems engineer for a commercial ISP back in the 90s, we always placed a router on the customer premise between the Internet and the customer's LAN. However it's main use was as a gateway. If a customer wanted more functionality than that we required them to place their own router behind ours. Gateways are always routers but with varying levels of capability, or configured to do less heavy lifting as a router. Boomer has it right. Typically a gateway will provide at least limited firewall protection for your LAN from the Internet. One main function of a gateway is NAT, or Network Address Translation, aka Port Mapping. So say if your LAN is on 192.2.168.x, and your public IP is 72.63.52.xxx, and you run a web server on port 9900, only people who go to 72.63.52.xxx":9900 will get to your web server because that port mapping is done by your gateway. The same for other servers you might run on other ports. There is no need for the outside world to know the LAN address of any of your servers, just your public IP and the port the server is on. Another use for a gateway might be to throttle or limit the data rate to any of the PCs on your LAN to/from the Internet. In many cases you can also configure gateways to not respond to pings or port scans. Running as a gateway,it is assumed that your LAN is all on the same subnet, i.e., 192.168.2.xxx/255.255.255/0 (as an example). However if you do not run a flat network and instead run multiple subnets, you would have to configure your device as a router, not a gateway, in order to route all traffic to the correct subnet and PC. That is rarely (if ever) needed on a home network. Jim Guy Doesn't Know What He's DoingThis CISCO RVS4000 Router gets reviewed once in awhile, and I always sit here blinking at the setting: MODE: Mode of Operation - Router or Gateway.It is set to "Gateway" because that's the way it was set in the first place before I even looked. But it's a so-called "router", isn't it? The rinky-dink manual that came with it simply names all kinds of settings it has and skips the part about educating the user to what settings mean or what they do. When I was a kid we went to see "Cisco Kid" movies, but he has long since been sent back to Mexico by someone like Trump, yet here is his CISCO Router causing confusion. I'm afraid to change the mode setting to "router" because it might create chaos. Can the ALPB help with this question? |
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