Wrong. Most home networking router/proxy/gateway devices have a web server running on them. Cable modems operate at Layer 2 of the OSI model. Specifically, they are bridge devices because the connect two unlike Layer 2 protocols (DOCSIS to Ethernet). Web servers are way up at Layer 7 (Application). There are no web servers on cable modems.
HAH! Same here in New Jersey, USA. New Jersey Transit uses the same system. I observed EXACTLY what you describe at Penn Station-NY while purchasing a ticket recently.
Heh, well at Wimbledon station in the UK, they run Windows NT to sell train tickets in one of those electronic hole in the wall ticket dispensers. (Choose ticket, insert money, out pops ticket).
While waiting for my pickup, I amused my self as the machine spontaneously rebooted, saw the NT4 loader in it's comforting blue screen, see Windows launch, autologin, connect to some network shares and start up the ticket selling interface. And then watch it spontaneously reboot again =P
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Wrong. Most home networking router/proxy/gateway devices have a web server running on them. Cable modems operate at Layer 2 of the OSI model. Specifically, they are bridge devices because the connect two unlike Layer 2 protocols (DOCSIS to Ethernet). Web servers are way up at Layer 7 (Application). There are no web servers on cable modems.
Heh, well at Wimbledon station in the UK, they run Windows NT to sell train tickets in one of those electronic hole in the wall ticket dispensers. (Choose ticket, insert money, out pops ticket). While waiting for my pickup, I amused my self as the machine spontaneously rebooted, saw the NT4 loader in it's comforting blue screen, see Windows launch, autologin, connect to some network shares and start up the ticket selling interface. And then watch it spontaneously reboot again =P