From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 11: 4:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840FE1551C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:04:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA27986 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:01:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Where is the routing table? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know two facts about routing tables: (1) They are definitely needed by a router; (2) They can be shown with netstat -rn command. I am not sure whether a normal host that is not configured as a gateway (TCP/IP gateway == router, right?) should have a routing table. Anyway, my machine (not a router) does display a small routing table with "netstat -rn". So is a routing table needed for a normal host that is not a router? Why? Thanks for any help. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message