is a component of [[NSX - T0 Router.md|T0 Router]]|[[NSX - T0 Router]] and [[NSX - T1 Router.md|T1 Router]]|[[NSX - T1 Router]] which runs on [[NSX - Transport Node.md|NSX Transport Nodes]]|[[NSX - Transport Node]] serving the VMs attached to an [[NSX - Segments.md|NSX Segment]]|[[NSX - Segments]] as a Gateway and offers other services like the distributed firewall. ## Features - Distributed Firewall - Distributed Gateway - advantage: different types of segments on the same ESXi host can be routed directly on the ESXi host itself, it never has to be routed outside.