> BTW, if you have EVER seen the term "egress" used in a networking
>reference let me know. I have the 3 volume "Internetworking with TCP/IP"
>by Comer & Stevens (which is on the CCIE reading list), and I don't see
>this term anywhere.
I have seen it several times in networking literature. In some situations
it is important to distinguish the router used for outgoing traffic vs.
the router that accepts incoming traffic. Since when have we stopped
using the English/American language when communicating with others? Do
we have to check "Internetworking" before we can use a word instead of
Websters? I could see it if the term was ambiguous (that is why you
invent 'technical' terms, to avoid ambiguity) Did anyone NOT know what
he meant by egress router? Since you are fond of the CCIE reading
list, I did a simple experiment. I did a web search of the Cisco
web site for the simple word "egress", got 19 documents of ~6500
that contained the word. So it DOES exist in the networking
literature. Jeeesh, lighten up.