Is a gateway mandatory for RAC environment?

Question:
Is a gateway mandatory for RAC installation, general on RAC environment?
*..when yes, why?*
Many thanks
I make this test with my only one RAC node
1. Run with gateway:
[oracle@linux1 ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora....X1.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.linux1.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.linux1.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.linux1.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.orcl.db    application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora....l1.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora....test.cs application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora....cl1.srv application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
[oracle@linux1 ~]$ srvctl status database -d orcl
Instance orcl1 is running on node linux1All thing seem correct!
2. run without gateway (blank setting):
[oracle@linux1 ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....X1.lsnr application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora.linux1.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.linux1.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    linux1
ora.linux1.vip application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora.orcl.db    application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....l1.inst application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....test.cs application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....cl1.srv application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
[oracle@linux1 ~]$ srvctl status database -d orcl
Instance orcl1 is not running on node linux1Something is false!

By default, the server's default gateway is used as a ping target during the Oracle RAC 10g VIP status check action.
Upon a ping failure, Oracle will decide that the current interface where the VIP is running has failed, and will initiate
an interface / internode VIP failover.
In above case, we used just one node for CRS installation, so the VIP coudn't failover to other nodes and thus reported additional error like :
CRS-1006: No more members to consider
CRS-0215: Could not start resource 'ora.dbtest2.vip'.
Try ->
A parameter FAIL_WHEN_DEFAULTGW_NOT_FOUND in the file
$ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racvip to address this problem.
The following steps will fix the VIP starting problem for above mentioned scenario.
1- stop nodeapps
2- As root,
vi the script $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racgvip and change the value of
variable FAIL_WHEN_DEFAULTGW_NOT_FOUND=0 .
3- start nodeapps and you should see the resources ONLINE
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