Really good documented. Sure. Thanks for that big explanation. As i said in the project web page, "interface between IP services and GSM messaging", so, i thought that a gateway was a good definition. Anyway, i didn't knew about gateway as a deprecated term. Well, i think it does not matter a lot. About bridging, i do not worry about ethernet or gsm stuff, so i think it has less of bridge and more of "protocol converter" or gateway. I use other lowlevel programs to use them. Alamin uses TCP in one side and SMS at the other. Bye. El 20 Sep 2001 a las 01:33PM +0200, Martin F Krafft escribio: > [cc'd back to debian as a request for confirmation/correction] > > Please realize that, at least from my side, this thread is purely for > informational purposes, and out of interest. i am not trying to make > life hard for anyone. > > the thread started because Andres calls his alamin.org project a > gateway, and i said it should be a bridge. we are finding out that > gateway isn't too wrong... > > also sprach Andres Seco Hernandez (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:33:55AM +0200): > > I was thinking that a bridge connects same topology networks, no > > different. > > this is false. bridges operate on the data-link layer (layer 2) of the > ISO/OSI stack model, as opposed to routers and gateways, which work on > level 3 (network) and up. Tanenbaum states in "Computer Networks" (3rd > ed., 1996) that bridges are frequently used to connect remote sites > with different network technologies, rather than having a coax cable > (for thinnet) go between them. and in Perlman (1992) > "Interconnections: Bridges and Routers", he states explicitly that > "Bridges are the only devices that can connect networks of different > topologies; e.g. The connection between Token Ring and Ethernet > networks is a bridge." > > More accurately, this should be "anything that connects two networks > of different topology is a bridge, or possesses the features of a > bridge. In fact, a Linux computer can run as a bridge, but not without > trouble because bridges *do not* go higher than OSI Level 2. > > A router is a simple packet forwarder based on decision/routing > tables. in its basic definition, it connects networks of same topology > and protocol, but modern routers or ISDN routers frequently add to > this by providing a link between PPP encapsulation and ethernet (or > ATM encapsulation). > > According to http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?gateway, a > gateway is a deprecated term for a protocol converter, but it also > applies to your situation, so in the end you are right: "An interface > between an information source and a World-Wide Web server. Common > Gateway Interface is a standard for such interfaces." > > so while Alamin bridges between GSM and Ethernet, it is also an SMS > and IP gateway, right? > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck > -- > *** closing link: disconnecting from stoned server. -- Andres Seco Hernandez - AndresSH@alamin.org MCP ID 445900 - http://andressh.alamin.org GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/3A48C934 E61C 08A9 EBC8 12E4 F363 E359 EDAC BE0B 3A48 C934 -------------------------------------------------- Alamin GSM SMS Gateway - http://www.alamin.org Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org Grupo de Usuarios de GNU/Linux de Guadalajara y alrededores - http://gulalcarria.sourceforge.net --------------------------------------------------
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