Gateway

Q. What is Gateway?

Answer:

A gateway is hardware & software devices

Gateway is used to interconnect LAN & WAN.

Figure: Gateway in Networking

Gateway makes communication possible between different architecture & environment.

Gateway perform protocol and date onversion.

A gateway operate at the "Transport Layer" and above.


Gateway uses all 7 layers on OSI models.


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