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Comment Re:Loss of service (Score 1) 419

by sillyfreak on Thursday February 05, 2004 @06:12PM (#8194960) Attached to: Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware

Wrong. Most home networking router/proxy/gateway devices have a web server running on them. Cable modems operate at Layer 2 of the OSI model. Specifically, they are bridge devices because the connect two unlike Layer 2 protocols (DOCSIS to Ethernet). Web servers are way up at Layer 7 (Application). There are no web servers on cable modems.

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