Date   : Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:44 +0100
From   : mu.list@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: Master Ethernet upgrade

> >a gateway and can runs daemons at the application level - a server,
> some of
> which e.g. SMTP will be a proxy.
> Yes this is a layer 7 device capacble of operting on layer 7 and the
> layers
> below it.
> But this over complicates things and esentially is not needed and will
> be
> slower. You only need a layer 3 device to do this task.


Nope. You need Layer 4 also as the econet packets have to be encapsulated
within a UDP packet or extracted from one.

-Mark