Functions and operations of CEBus routers

A router is the device in the CEBus network which connects different media. A router intelligently forwards packets onto adjacent media and maintains the tree-structure topology. These functions are provided though the interaction of four elements the communications element, the forwarding element, the directory routing table element, and the network topology protocol element. These elements, combined with the services of the other layers of the router, relieve the nodes of the costly task of network maintenance