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  2. Residential gateway - Wikipedia

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    Wireless routers perform the same functions as a wired router and base station, but allow connectivity for wireless devices with the LAN, or as a bridge between the wireless router and another wireless router for a meshnet (the wireless router-wireless router connection can be within the LAN or can be between the LAN and WWAN). [14]

  3. Local area network - Wikipedia

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    A switch can be connected to a router, cable modem, or ADSL modem for Internet access. LANs at residential homes usually tend to have a single router and often may include a wireless repeater. A LAN can include a wide variety of other network devices such as firewalls, load balancers, and network intrusion detection. [7]

  4. Virtual IP address - Wikipedia

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    VIP addresses are also used for connection redundancy by providing alternative fail-over options for one machine. For this to work, the host has to run an interior gateway protocol like Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and appear as a router to the rest of the network. It advertises virtual links connected via itself to all of its actual ...

  5. Metropolitan area network - Wikipedia

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    A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a computer network that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic region of the size of a metropolitan area.The term MAN is applied to the interconnection of local area networks (LANs) in a city into a single larger network which may then also offer efficient connection to a wide area network.

  6. List of IP protocol numbers - Wikipedia

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    Service-Specific Connection-Oriented Protocol in a Multilink and Connectionless Environment ITU-T Q.2111 (1999) 0x81 129 IPLT 0x82 130 SPS Secure Packet Shield: 0x83 131 PIPE Private IP Encapsulation within IP Expired I-D draft-petri-mobileip-pipe-00.txt: 0x84 132 SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol: RFC 4960: 0x85 133 FC Fibre Channel ...

  7. Port forwarding - Wikipedia

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    Port forwarding facilitates the connection by remote computers, for example, Internet hosts, to a specific computer or service within a local area network (LAN). [3]In a typical residential network, nodes obtain Internet access through a DSL or cable modem connected to a router or network address translator (NAT/NAPT).

  8. DSL modem - Wikipedia

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    The modem connects to a single computer or router, through an Ethernet port, USB port, or is installed in a computer PCI slot. The more common DSL router is a standalone device that combines the function of a DSL modem and a router, and can connect multiple computers through multiple Ethernet ports or an integral wireless access point.

  9. Linksys WRT54G series - Wikipedia

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    It is a compact wireless travel router with SpeedBooster support that has only one LAN and one WAN Fast Ethernet interfaces, but has two wireless interfaces. The WTR54GS has the ability to make an unencrypted wireless connection on one interface, and make open shared connections on the other wireless interface, or the LAN port.