by a machine into plastic packets :)
uses one pair for receiving packets and another pair for sending packets.
Ping
You dye clothes in a washing machine by buying the packets of dye at a store and then you pour it in and then you let it set and voila it is dyed after you tale it out and dry it.
Packets Words
Packets sent through Linksys integrated router using NAT can be described in two ways. First, packets have to be translated if they are sent to another LAN, and secondly, packets sent to hosts within the same LAN need no translation.
Basically what it does is when computers get a distributed denial of service virus (ddos) they start sending packets of information to a server or a machine. The machine must then answer the packets using up processing space and if too much space is used by the requests, if there are enough machines and the server doesn't have a connection limit to prevent these attacks then it will prevent legitimate traffic from using the server or machine. See link for more details
Modern networks used two devices for the data packets within the network will flow easily. The two devices are the routers and switches.
Ping usually sends small packets to the destination machine, which is in turn sent back by the destination machine to the source machine. There are usually many paths available from the source to the destination, and each time ping is run, it is not necessary that the same route is chosen. (The route can vary depending on the traffic patterns etc) This changes the amount of time taken by packets to come back to source machine when ping runs different number of times.
data packets is a kind of packets of data. a groop of bits that is together in a groop.
Routers....
Giant packets. Runt packets are packets that are too small. Giant packets are too large for the medium.