Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:30:37 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Edward <edward_gess@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing_tables Message-ID: <20010403183037.A71953@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3AC9F829.A22C801@hotmail.com>; from edward_gess@hotmail.com on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:19:53PM %2B0200 References: <3AC9F829.A22C801@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:19:53PM +0200, Edward wrote: > Hi all, > I have one question, why do we need the "Gateway" field in routing > tables, if we know to what interface the packets should be sent??? > Because just "what interface to send" is not always enough. You can have multiple gateways on a single LAN. > Am I right when thinking that if the computer is not a gateway then > it uses routing table only for outgoing packets and if the computer > is a gateway it uses this (routing) table for both types > (incoming/outgoing) of packets??? > Only for outgoing packets in both cases. We don't need to "route" incoming packets, they are already routed to us. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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