use of default gateway on switch

[sivakondalarao]

hi,

there is option to specify default gateway on switch.

what is the purpose of it?

Regards

skrao

[pkhatri]

Hi,

Layer 2 switches have to be configured like IP hosts, which are not capable of routing. In the same manner that you assign default gateways to hosts, you need to assign a default gateway to such a L2 switch so that management traffic from the switch can be routed to the gateway router.

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Paresh

[henrybb]

another solution is enable proxy-arp on gateway.

[glen.grant]

You can use proxy but it security best practice to not use it if you don't need to.