Hi all,
I’ve read on IP routing from different sources and since I am not very tech savvy, I get even more confused.
As an additional question: Is there a difference between your typical at-home fiber cable router and an IP routing capable router?
Thank you!
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The router at your house has a pretty simple set of rules. Packets with the IP address assigned to your house by your ISP come in and all others are ignored. Any traffic it sees is forwarded to the ISPs routers, as there is no other part of the Internet that’s at your house.
A more general router, like the expensive ones your school or ISP buys, keep a more complex structure of which parts of the Internet are on which connections. If your ISP connects to three other ISPs, it has to sort all the traffic from all the users according to which destinations are served by each external ISP.
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