[Cialug] Routes? Interfaces?

[Dave Weis]

Todd Walton wrote:
> Can someone explain to me what the difference between a route and an
> interface is?  You can have a route with no interface, but can you
> have an interface with no route?  What good is one without the other?

You can have either with neither :-)

An interface is how something physically hooks to a network and a route 
tells the computer how to get somewhere. The most common case is you 
have a route to the 'local' computers that share the ethernet with you 
and a 'default' route that tells your computer how to get to anything 
that isn't local.

dave



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