Win98 as router to another Win 98

1. The default gateway is the address used when your machine needs to access an address out of the subnet that your machine is in.

Often this will be set to the address of the router between the subnets.

Your gateway server is in the same subnet and so the gateway address wont come into it.

2. Look at the following site for a description of the ROUTE command.

http://www.petedotcom.com/networking/tcp_ip_utilities.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Tim

1) Why would you do such a silly thing? Anyway, you won't have any trouble browsing your local subnet, because the gateway address only comes into play when you try to find an IP address that is not local (i.e., on the internet or on another subnetwithin a wider private network). If you tried, for example, to browse the Internet from your second Win98 machine, you would start to have trouble, unless of course the first Win98 was directly connected to the Internet and was using Internet Connection Sharing.
2) the Route command is used in conjunction with other commands (i.e., route print, route add, etc.) to establish and manage the local IP routing table. This is a complicated subject, but you can get basic information by typing route/? at the command prompt - this will give you all of the subcommands and some basic information about what they do.
Hope this helps!

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