"Mark" wrote in message
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:57:18 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
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Timothy Murphy wrote:
Huge wrote:

The manufacturer calls the device attached to the internet a "modem",
They're wrong.

I think a manufacturer probably knows better than you what he is making.

well it is a modem, but its not just a modem

Typically a basic NAT router is a modem, a bridge, a router, a NAT
engyne, a stateful firewall machine, a DHCP server a proxy DNS server
and..a web server . To name just a few. Its probably alos a log server
and may have an snmp server in it too. Oh and a wireless bridge.

And it may also be a Network Switch too.

and a file server, print server.

Mine is a Linux machine in a a box as are a lot of others.