2 routers question

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Alex Fraser
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>I still don't have a clue what Clint Sharp was trying to say.
Why? Never seen a cable router? They have two or more ethernet ports,
one of which is the WAN port and the other(s) are either an uplink port
or a straight ethernet port for the local network, so the ports are
electrically and physically interchangeable if not functionally.
>Alex
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Clint Sharp

"Clint Sharp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Alex Fraser
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
> >I still don't have a clue what Clint Sharp was trying to say.
> Why? Never seen a cable router? They have two or more ethernet ports,
> one of which is the WAN port and the other(s) are either an uplink port
> or a straight ethernet port for the local network, so the ports are
> electrically and physically interchangeable if not functionally.

Sorry, being "electrically and physically interchangeable" was too obvious;
I thought you meant functionally.

Alex

"Alex Fraser" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Clint Sharp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Why? Never seen a cable router? They have two or more ethernet ports,
> > one of which is the WAN port and the other(s) are either an uplink port
> > or a straight ethernet port for the local network, so the ports are
> > electrically and physically interchangeable if not functionally.
>
> Sorry, being "electrically and physically interchangeable" was too
> obvious; I thought you meant functionally.

Make that, I thought you were trying to say they are not necessarily
functionally different.

Alex