yajivku

 Profile Answers by yajivku 

• Apr 30th, 2009

 

A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network.

Every device in the network is configured with gateway address. The gateway address should be on the same subnet.

simple_anagh

 Profile Answers by simple_anagh 

• Aug 13th, 2009

 

In simple terms it will provide access of LAN to WAN
It allows connection between LAN and WAN.

siddik

• Jan 29th, 2014

 

Gateway is nothing but a way to enter and exit of network point

Sean B.

• Jul 11th, 2014

 

A gateway is a layer 7 networking device, it does not necessary separate WAN from LAN but does separate Networks. The Gateway can route multiple protocols, and support many types physical , or data access type. It can even analyze and interact higher level application protocol (HTML, FTP, HTTP).