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Indicator
Type
Destination LAN IP
Address
Subnet Mask
Gateway IP Address To communicate with an IP address matching the destination IP
Hop Count
The figure below shows three network routes that your router currently possesses.
192.168.2.0 is the destination network connected to one of your router's interface ports (LAN
or WAN) and the IP address and Subnet Mask for this interface is 192.168.2.1 and
255.255.255.0, respectively. The number of routers (Hop Count) the packet passed through is
1. Also in the same example, the destination with 0.0.0.0 network and 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask is
the default route for your router, where every packet that left unmapped to any other route will
be mapped to this route. The outgoing default gateway IP address is 192.168.1.254.
Description
The type of routing. This can be either of the following:
LAN or WAN interface (INTF)
Static routing
Either an entire network or a specific IP address. An IP address ending
in .0 refers to a network.
Must follow the subnet mask rules
Address, the Router sends all traffic through the gateway IP address
listed here.
The number of routers the packet has passed through to its destination.
Hop count is used to measure the distance between a source and a
destination. If there are 3 routers between the source and the
destination nodes, the hop count for the packet will be 3 when it arrives
at its destination node.
Routing Table
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