What is a default gateway? What happens if I don't have one? :confused:

Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default gateway?

Pl reply... :D

The computer would not leave the local network and therefore not have internet access.

WikiAnswers - How does a gateway function do

KeedKarma... ya beat me to it.

This is what a router (gateway) is designed to do... route traffice to/from one network (your home network) to/from another network (the Internet).

I moved your other post (#2 in the list) into this one since they are basically the same question.

Can a workstation computer be configured to browse the Internet and yet NOT have a default gateway

What is a subnet

What is an RFC? Name a few if possible (not necessarily the numbers, just the ideas behind them)

What is CIDR

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Originally Posted by kailash sisodia

What is an RFC?

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RFC is "Request For Comments". Someone spent some time writing this Wikipedia article, so I won't try to duplicate it here.

Request for comments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Originally Posted by kailash sisodia

What is CIDR

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Classless Inter-Domain Routing is the one I know of.

Classless Inter-Domain Routing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia