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Each packet is then whisked along over fiber optic lines to the router nearest you. There are six of them on campus, including one for the river houses, one for the Yard and one for the Quad. Think of a router as a "hub for hubs," taking all the packets from thousands of users and sending them along once more to the Science Center...
...this point, your data may go one of several ways. Say you've opened a telnet session to fas to read newsgroups. The Science Center router will see that the packet heading towards it is destined for "140.247.30.30," the IP address for the fas server. The router then dutifully sends your packet on to fas, which processes the data and sends a response packet...
...Sunday Router Shutdown Causes 45 min. Interruption...
...router shutdown Sunday night left students unable to access the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) UNIX machines for 45 minutes...
Peter R. Buletza '96 said he was working on a Computer Science 161 project when the router, which is the hub of the Harvard network, shut down...