Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for providing a gateway function. The gateway function may be provided through interaction between a gateway and a server. In providing the gateway function, the gateway may provide a relatively lower layer, and the server may provide a relatively upper layer. The server may provide a gateway function in an NFV manner. The gateway may perform processing by calling a mapping function of the NFV type provided by the server. The server may be one of cloud servers providing an NFV pool.