Where is the Gateway Bridge?

Answer 1

The term Gateway Bridge may refer to any of the following structures: * Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia * Gateway Bridge over the Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa * Gateway Bridge in Brownsville, Texas * Thames Gateway Bridge is a proposed new crossing of the River Thames in East London

Source: Wikipedia

Answer 2

A bridge is a network device that enables you to connect two networks (like your home network) with another one (like the internet) in a more-or-less transparent way. Usually, networks are connected via routers, which have their external (visible on the outside network) and internal (visible on the internal network) IP addresses. When you do a traceroute, a router will be a "hop" in the route, in other words, it will be shown as a definite "milestone" on a data packet's way from source to destination. If the network is connected via a bridge, the bridge itself does not have it's own IP address and won't be visible on the packet's route. A simple example of a bridge: You have some kind of a DSL line from your ISP, and have one assigned "public" IP address. You want your computer to be fully visible on the Internet under this address. You must then use the DSL unit in "bridge" mode, which will enable you to assign that single public IP address to your computer; the DSL device will not be visible on the way. Alternatively, you might use the device in "router" mode, resulting in the router having that public IP address. Your computer (and some other ones on the same network) will get different IP addresses, can even be so called private IP addresses (see: NAT). You'd have to configure port forwarding, which essentially means opening on the router IP ports for the necessary services (like WWW/HTTP server, FTP server, or whatever you need the computer to be visible for) and telling the router to pass the communication from these ports directly to the same ports on your computer. ---- The context of the question needs some clarification. The "Gateway Bridge" is a major bridge over the Brisbane River, linking the northern arterial roads with the southern arterial roads.