On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:00 am, Joel Newkirk wrote: [snipped down to my screwup] > If you have a box with IP's on two different subnets, and it passes > communications between those subnets, you've essentially got a bridge. > It's a router. NAT is Network Address Translation, where you Sorry, I didn't finish this thought, I was cut'n'pasting all over the place. That should read: "(It's a router) living on two subnets, passing packets between them." I guess I should re-read my posts an extra time before posting. (or not read them after posting, and take the heat :^) (or maybe compose more concise messages, to ease proofreading...) j