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Gateway is a computer networking term. A gateway allows two or more computers to connect to the internet at the same time. While doing so, only the gateway's IP address will be visible externally. The other computers will be *hidden* behind the gateway.

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What does "On-link" mean on the result of "route print" command?

I'm using Windows 7. When I type "route print" under command prompt, I get a IPv4 Route Table with several "On-link" values under the Gateway column. For example, like this one: IPv4 Route…
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How do I still have Internet connectivity after removing the default gateway IP address from macOS network configuration?

I am trying to learn/experiment with some networking basics. I am on macOS with DHCP configured. I purposely removed the default gateway IP address (192.168.0.1) by going to the networking settings. I also confirmed there is no default route by…
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How can I ping via an alternate gateway?

Our network has two modems, each one hidden behind a router. The primary router is on 10.1.1.1, the backup router is on 10.1.1.2, and are both configured to the 10.1.1.0/24 subnet. Both routers have their gateway configured to 192.168.0.1. However,…
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How can I find the IP address of my client bridge router?

I have a client bridge (LinkSys WRT54GL router with DD-WRT firmware). I specified an IP address of 192.168.1.2 for the device, however, when I run ipconfig, the default gateway is now 192.168.0.1. Similarly, when I try to connect to…
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SSH server can't be connected to when VPN is turned on

I recently found that when my workstation connects through a VPN connection then its SSH server can't be connected to from a remote site. I am sure it's a routing problem because the the VPN client changes the default gateway to its peer (VPN…
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Understanding Windows Routing Tables and Default Gateways

Note:This is my home computer lab and not a business/production environment. I'm more than happy to break it and fix it again, so any suggestions are welcome! SUMMARY I've added this quick summary because this question is getting rather long. If…
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Why does `route` hang for a while before the route table being dumped?

Typing the command: % route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 2 0 0 wlan0 link-local * …
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What is 1.1.1.1? Why does it work for traceoute but not ping?

Today while trying out with networks I took traceroute of 1.1.1.1 and found my gateway address. Whereas I pinged 1.1.1.1 it results with packet loss. I googled about 1.1.1.1 and can't find any relevant results. The following were my questions: What…
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What's the difference between "default gateway" and "preferred DNS server"?

TCP/IP Properties of a network connection in Windows Server 2003 has two different options, "Default gateway" and "Preferred DNS server".
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SCP through SSH gateway connection

My network layout is something like this: Now Alice has access to SSH gateway (just gateway from now on) with: ssh alice@external.ip and the authorized keys file on the gateway looks like this #/home/Alice/.ssh/authorized_keys command="ssh -t…
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Identify the device if it is hub, switch, router or gateway

If you are given two hosts which are connected via a blackbox which you dont know. How can you recognize that blackbox as hub, switch, router or gateway without using any additional device or host? One more thing: You can not perform any operation…
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Find out dhcp assigned gateway and dns settings in Linux (CentOS)

How to find the gateway and DNS IPs in a DHCP configured network in CentOS? I'm using CentOS installed in vmware using NAT connection and I want to make the ip static.
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VirtualBox: VPN networking test environment

I want to setup VirtualBox instances of Ubuntu guest to make a VPN test network. The host is Windows 7 Ultimate. My hope is to setup a VirtualBox instance which represents a gateway for the test network. Additional nodes could be added to this…
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How to find a WiFi repeater's IP to configure it?

I want to configure my WiFi repeater's settings. I'm connected through WiFi, as my laptop's Ethernet port broke. I searched for the repeater's manual, it says that I should be able to connect using the 192.168.10.253 address, but it doesn't work. In…
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Complete masquerading NAT example using nftables on Linux?

I'm looking for a complete example how to do this using nftables. It should be a DHCP client on the upstream interface, have a 192.168.0.0/24 LAN on the other interface, and also act as a firewall. Extra credit for opening up an ssh port on the…
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