Setting Static Routes; Adding And Deleting A Static Route For Ip - Lucent Technologies PortMaster 4 Configuration Manual

Setting Static Routes

Static routes provide routing information unavailable from the Routing Information
Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol, or Border Gateway Protocol
(BGP). RIP, OSPF, or BGP might not be running for one of the following two reasons.
• Network administrators choose not to run RIP, OSPF, or BGP.
• Hosts connected to the PortMaster do not support RIP, OSPF, or BGP.
Separate static routes tables are maintained for IP and for IPX, which you display with
the show routes and show ipxroutes commands.
You construct a static route table manually on a PortMaster by adding and deleting static
routes as described in the following sections. Refer to the PortMaster Routing Guide for
information about routing and static routes.

Adding and Deleting a Static Route for IP

A static route for IP contains the following items:
• Destination—The IP address prefix of the host or the number of the IPX network
to which the PortMaster will be routing.
• Netmask —The static netmask in use at the destination. See "Modifying the Static
Netmask Table" on page 2-18 for more information about netmasks.
• Gateway—The address of a locally attached router where packets are sent for
forwarding to the destination.
• Metric—The number of routers (or hops) a packet must cross to reach its
destination. The metric represents the cost of sending the packet through the
gateway to the specified destination.
Note – Never set the gateway for the PortMaster to an address on the same PortMaster;
the gateway must be on another router.
Use the following commands to add a static route for IP:
Command> add route Ipaddress[/NM] Ipaddress(gw) Metric
Command> save all
Use the following commands to delete a static route for IP:
Command> delete route Ipaddress[/NM] Ipaddress(gw)
Command> save all
You can delete only static routes.
Configuring Global Settings

Setting Static Routes

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