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From: tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: Can a gateway function without a server?
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Date: 28 Dec 89 08:44:30 GMT
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In article <6743@lindy.Stanford.EDU> romeo@lindy.UUCP (Patrick Goebel) writes:
    I'm a little confused.  Perhaps someone can clarify the following issue:
    
    Suppose the server at the center of your LAN goes down.  Assume
    futhermore that your network connects to the Internet via a 56k-baud
    DDS (say) using some kind of gateway box (Cisco for example).
    
    Now suppose a PC user on your network wishes to telnet to a remote
    machine over the 56k line WHILE YOUR SERVER IS DOWN.  Can this be done?
    
That depends.  Assuming that your gateway box is on your LAN, you
should be able to get out.  However, your server may be acting as your
nameserver, or it may be serving other components critical to your
telnet application.  In these cases, you PC can't go anywhere.  Not
because the packets can get there but because you can't send the
packets in the first place.

Tony Li - USC University Computing Services
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