Almost everything IP has a routing table
including your desktop. Issue "route print" to see it.
NetView considers anything which has
multiple IP addresses and IP Forwarding turned on to be a router.
Bill Evans
Tivoli NetView
Support for DOE
903-301-0057
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher J Petrina
[mailto:cjp8 AT meadwestvaco DOT com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:14
PM
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Subject: [nv-l] Routers vs.
Switches
Hello all,
Its
it my understanding that a device is considered a router if it has a routing
table? What I am trying to find out is how to differentiate a switch
from a router. I use routers as gateways, however switches are not
gateways. But if NV comes across a switch which happens to have a routing
table (Such as a switch with an L3 card in it) it will interpret that device as
a router and place it as a gateway?
Chris
Petrina
