From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 11:15:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ionet.net (mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CEE14FF2 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:15:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ssamalin@ionet.net) Received: from ionet.net (ip17.isdn5-boston.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.26.9.17]) by ionet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA29436; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:15:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3819E3DD.CBF8BAC8@ionet.net> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:13:49 -0400 From: Sam Samalin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the routing table? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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