I've been running an airport extreme for around 1.5 years or so. For the life of me I can't remember why I decided to go this route instead of a non-Apple router. I think it had to do with my thought ...
In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...
A router has a routing table and a neighbor cache (same as ARP cache for IPv4). The first one (the Routing Information Base, or RIB) contains next hops for a given destination match (longest match); ...