Well a "PC" computer is a router if you tell it to be one. We did that all the time in the Solaris courses way back years ago. We just used average x86 systems with a single NIC and made them become routers using IP aliases on Solaris 9. Pretty simple. You can do that same thing with any computer really. A "router" is just a more specialized version of that. And all the rest of that is just instructions that people give the computer either as added software or built-in to whatever OS it's using.
Right. There was this engineer a few weeks ago who was working on a test system here and had some connectivity issues. Before he even said one word to me, I saw the disconnected cable sticking out. No problem. There's a lot of stuff connected so it was just an oversight. He started explaining that nothing was working and midway through the explanation I connected the network cable and turned his frown upside down just like that. You guys are right. Work smarter not harder.
Yes, but it will not have the resiliency of a dedicated router. There are far more points of failure where the router is running on top of a generic OS, troubleshooting is different.
A dedicated router will just restart when it encounters a critical condition, fixing itself. A PC will not.
Huh? An on topic post? Don't you know this thread has degraded down to arguing between tastes great and less filling? If you really want to be part of this thread, tell CeeBee he is arrogant and tell Webhead he is a no good Apple lover. I can't believe you chose to be polite and mature. What's this world coming to?