Can a network interface be configured to have a default gateway for UDP packets?
- by Vaibhav
It is quite possible that my question may not make a lot of sense. I apologize, but I am not a networking guy, and that's my excuse.
To elaborate, WikiPedia defines "Default Gateway" as a node on a "TCP/IP" network. And the way it works is that if a network interface is sending a packet to an IP address not present on its subnet, it sends it out to the default gateway (which then knows what to do with that packet).
Is this true if a UDP packet (datagram) is involved? I mean, if my network interface is sending a UDP packet to an IP address that is not present on its subnet, would it automatically send it to the Default Gateway as well?