Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Feb 09, 2009 7:30am PST

A new week has dawned, and this one promises bikini-clad zombie slayers.

As expected, my enjoyment of Burnout Paradise is significantly higher after the latest patch. Hooray for the option to restart an event, instead of driving halfway across the map to try again. I sat down to play for a few minutes and ended up losing a few hours.

However, this will put force me to make a difficult call later in the week. Car crashes or zombie killing? I honestly don't know if I'll be able to decide. Both sound so appealing.

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By: SqueegyTBS x Show Full Post

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2 Computers behind a router, which splits an IP address. 1 computer sends a request to remote host. The host responds by sending a stream of packets. These packets are instructed to be sent to a specific IP.

How does the router that receives the packets know to send them to my computer, and not the other computer?

Feb 09, 2009 4:50pm PST

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2 Computers behind a router, which splits an IP address. 1 computer sends a request to remote host. The... : SqueegyTBS
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- i believe there's info in the packet header or whatever that identifies the data as a response to a certa... : cpt_gloval
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  Routing is done by MAC address only, not by IP
  
  Feb 09, 2009 4:54pm PST
  
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  Routing is done by MAC address only, not by IP : Yanks
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    ? Switching is MAC address, routing is IP. : Medster
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      So packets contains both an IP and a mac address in there headers? Doesn't that add up to a lot of overh... : SqueegyTBS
      
      no. 12-18 bytes is not a lot. (Forget how big macs are, can't be much, though). : Agrona
    - I thought it was a bunch of arps with your mac address, I could be wrong though : Yanks
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation : BongSlayerB
  - Bah! : pieman
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation : pieman
- if im not mistaken, routers store destination/source ips in a table (routers have their own memory) and ... : mrsparil
- because both your computers have an internal nertwork IP that your router gives them .. and associated it... : ghost hacker
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  It's called a NAT(Network Address Translation) sir. If the originating IP is behind the 'public' IP, tra... : spazzium
- Also, I'm in town. If you have a spicy new version of void or latestchatty you would like to pass along,... : spazzium
- routing tables http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/ietf-behave/pdf00000.pdf : anhero

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