In some cases, the provider node may reside locally within an Intranet or in other cases it could reside remotely over the Internet.
在某些情况下，提供者节点就在本地的企业内部网上，或者在其它情形下，它可能存在于远端的因特网上。
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The time the datagram remains on the Internet is measured in hops, where one hop represents one gateway on the datagram's path to the destination node.
Placing the control node network connection between the WAP and the modem allows monitoring of all connections to the Internet from any machine on network.