Re: Setup for a static ethernet connection

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Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> I did not define GATEWAY because there isn't one.

Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> In that case you could only connect to computers within the same subnet 
> as your network interface, apparently 198.168.20.0 in your case. If you 
> want to connect to other computers outside of this subnet, you need a 
> gateway. You probably also need a gateway to do name resolution, 
> depending on how you have setup that.

Just wondering, but would not specifying a gateway prevent most things
from accessing outside of a LAN?  (Ignoring people manually
reconfiguring their clients to sidestep it.)  I would have thought so,
but don't know if things to be /helpful/, these days.

Yes, I can test that on my own LAN.  But it's not a very broad test of
the notion.

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