Technotes Bonus exam question 6

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6. Which of the following devices can be used to connect a 10base2 lan to a 10 baseT lan?

a. hub
b. repeater
c. router
d. bridge
e. gateway

you have the answer as router, but i was under the impression that gateways were used to connect LANs with different protocols or architectures.

Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

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i was under the impression that gateways were used to connect LANs with different protocols or architectures.

That is what a gateway does, and that is exactly what I mentioned in the TechNotes (Network Components section) as well. And I included some examples also:

A gateway could be used to allow IPX/SPX clients to use a gateway with a TCP/IP uplink to an internet connection. TCP/IP would be converted to IPX/SPX. Another common use of a gateway is to connect an Ethernet network to an IBM SNA mainframe environment.

However, a router can be used to connect different network types, as I also wrote in that same section:

Common use of routers is to connect two different type of networks (for example Ethernet and Token ring) or to interconnect LANs into a WAN.

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