Incorrect reference to router

[awdimmick]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/How_does_the_Internet_work

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

A simple network

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The paragraph that follows the 45 interconnected networked computers states that this problem can be solved by connecting all computers to a router.

My understanding is that a router is a device that sends packets on to an external network if they are not destined for a local address.

What did you expect to see?

The device that allows all machines on a local network to connect together is a switch or a hub, which itself will then connect to a router to send all of the packets from those local machines to the external network.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://www.cisco.com/c/en_uk/solutions/small-business/resource-center/networking/network-switch-vs-router.html#~switches

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/network-layer/what-is-a-network-switch/

Do you have anything more you want to share?

I realise that this might introduce a level of complexity that we wish to avoid in a beginner's guide, but it would make the article much more useful in education settings (I'm a computer science teacher in the UK) as we otherwise have to address these slight inaccuracies once students have read the article for a general introduction.

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Page report details

• Folder: en-us/learn/common_questions/how_does_the_internet_work
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Common_questions/How_does_the_Internet_work
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/learn/common_questions/how_does_the_internet_work/index.md
• Last commit: 904cdf0
• Document last modified: 2022-09-09T05:00:53.000Z

[wbamberg]

Thanks for filing, @awdimmick , this sounds like a good thing to fix. Would you be at all interested in filing a PR to update the article?