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How can I find which network appliance is acting as our gateway with the IP address?

Our gateway used to be the firewall and was changed to another device on the network - how can we determine what switch, router, etc is acting as our gateway?
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Open a Command Prompt and type ipconfig /all

Look for "Default Gateway"  

This is the one you are using.
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Note that since each device has its own TCP stack, each device can have its own gateway.  It is common for all devices on a network to use DHCP to get their address and gateway information, but it's not mandatory.  The fact that computer A is using, say 192.168.0.1 as its gateway does not guarantee that the Slingbox next to it also is using the same gateway.
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