From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 8:20:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.takas.lt (srvr2.telecom.lt [212.59.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFA337B719 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:20:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edward_gess@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com (dialup239.vln.takas.lt [212.59.14.247]) by mail.takas.lt (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA1500749 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:20:24 +0200 (GMT+0200) Message-ID: <3AC9F829.A22C801@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:19:53 +0200 From: Edward Organization: none X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: routing_tables Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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??? 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??? Please help me, thanks - Ed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message