22 Mar
2000
22 Mar
'00
9:09 p.m.
I have several network cards on my filer, each with its own subnet - If I am on a subnet that the cards are not defined for, how does the filer know which subnet/card to send the information out on ?
Mark Fowle Caterpillar/BCP
This decision is made by the routing table. The routing table is built primarily in 3 ways. Static routes (like the default route and interface routes), ICMP redirects, and if used routing protocols like RIP. The filer will look at the routing table to decide the first hop for the reply.
To views your route table, try netstat -rn.
Hope this helps.
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