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A "Default Gateway" refers to the Router to which your Local Area Network is connected to. This Router provides the link to the outside world (internet or Wide Area Network). If this is a home PC situation then the Broadband Router is the Default Gateway.When your PC requests a network resource (webpage or server share) that is not on the local subnet the request is automatically forwarded to the Default Gateway which in turn forwards the request to the far end (Node) of that link. You can have many Gateways on your LAN, each providing a Route to a particular extenal network. All networks must have one of these Gateways as default so all other requests can be sent to it by "Default" this is where the term comes from.

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