February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
387 pages
7h 36m
English
The term internetworking unit (IWU) is used to describe a machine that performs relaying (and perhaps route discovery) functions between networks.
Networks are often called subnetworks (or subnets), as shown in Figure 1-1. The term does not mean that they provide fewer functions than a conventional network. Rather, it means that the subnetworks contribute to the overall operations for internetworking. Stated another way, the subnetworks comprise an internetwork or an internet.
An internetworking unit is designed to remain transparent to the end user application. The end user application ...
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