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Tim
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If a device has two network interfaces which are connected to two different networks, is the device necessarily a gateway between the two networks?

Is it correct that every device in network(s) has a routing table?

If a device has two network interfaces which are connected to two different networks, is the device necessarily a gateway (for routing purpose) between the two networks?

I thought a gateway is a device manually designated to be a gateway, but now wonder whether a gateway between two networks is just a device

  • with two network interfaces connected to the networks respectively, and

  • with a routing table allowing packets to be transmitted from a network to the other.

Thanks.

Tim
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