What does 'not a gateway' mean?

[robert.huang]

Hi All,

Today I issued "show ip traffic" on the 2960 Catalyst switch, and found '4554734 not a gateway' in Rcvd section. Somebody here can tell me what 'not a gateway' mean? Is that normal?

Much appreciated.

[John Blakley]

It's normal. It means that the packet isn't routed out a gateway and stays on the local segment.

HTH,

John

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[Harold Ritter]

John,

This counter is incremented when the device is not configured as an ip router (no ip routing) and you receive an ip packet for a destination that is not your local IP address.

Regards

[Harold Ritter · Accepted solution]

Robert,

My guess is that you have configured an IP address on the 2960 for management purposes only (it is not configured as a router) but some other device on that subnet is trying to use it as it default gateway.

Regards