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title: "What is B Router?"  
description: "What is B Router?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-10-08  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50284/what-is-b-router  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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#  What is B Router?

What is B [Router](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2071/your-router-is-collecting-data-here-s-what-to-know-and-how-to-protect-your-privacy)?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

A **brouter** is a device that serves as a bridge and a router at the same time. It may both forward data between networks and route data to specific systems within a network (acting as a bridge) (serving as a router). \
A bridge's primary function is to connect two distinct networks. It merely moves incoming packets from one network to another. A router, on the other hand, is more sophisticated since it can route packets to specific systems that are linked to it. A brouter combines these two functions by routing some incoming data to the appropriate systems while sending the rest to a different network. In other words, a brouter acts as a filter, allowing some data into the local network while sending unidentified data to another network.


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