Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:13:49 -0400 From: Sam Samalin <ssamalin@ionet.net> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the routing table? Message-ID: <3819E3DD.CBF8BAC8@ionet.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991029125132.609A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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All tcp hosts route. Hosts that aren't routers usually have a simple routing table with one route: the default route which routes to a router. Zhihui Zhang wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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