yeah, i do have a pretty good understanding of routing tables.

i think that answered my question. i know that, as far as machines on one's LAN are concerned, one's router (which has an Internet connection) is the default gateway. i was just wondering how that router routes packets?

so it too has a default gateway, which is a router at one's ISP, where packets with a destination that is not on one's LAN are routed. so, for example, if you were to request a web-page, the HTTP request would probably be sent to the router on your LAN, then your ISPs router, then an Internet backbone router etc. am i correct?


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- user0182