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[Rick]

please can someone help me, someone told me that they download stuff through a gateway or something could someone please tell me wot a gateway is??


(u c i'm a begginer in the p2p world)

[Fantom]

Hi - The term Gateway can mean lots of things, so your best option would be to seek clarification from the person you were talking to.

The ISP that connects the user to the internet is sometimes known as a gateway.

A gateway can be a node on a network that serves as an entrance to another network.

An application proxy is sometimes known as an application gateway: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/appl...n_gateway.html

A company called Gateway make computers, so he could just mean he has a Gateway computer: http://www.gateway.com

Routers are sometimes known as gateways.

He might have meant any of those things. And there are other possibilities too. Best to seek further info from whoever you were talking with.

[multi]

hello rick and welcome to the p2p forum.....
there is one meaning of "gateway" i can tell you about...
usually in reference to the one computer on a LAN with the modem connected to the internet, the other computers on the LAN connect to that via a NIC (network interface card)
common IP address for the gateway computer on a Local Area Network
is usualy 192.168.0.1
most of the other computers on that LAN will be in the 192.168.0.0 range
(192.168.0.2 -> 192.168.0.255)
unless they are on a subnetwork...

if someone is refering to their gateway
more than likley thay are refering to the computer they are connected to ,to get to the internet....


there is a reference in CGI - Common Gateway Interface
dont know if you would mean that one
but you can read about that here
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html
that is more to do with web pages...