Static Routing - Net Insight Nimbra One User Manual

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Figure 75 Differences between routing in an IP network and a DTM network
This section describes how to configure routing. There are two different ways
to configure routing:
Static routing where the routing tables are configured manually. Manual
configuration of routing tables works fine in a small network.
Dynamic routing where a routing protocol calculates the routing tables
automatically.
Note: Do not mix dynamic routing with static routing since this can
lead to errors that are hard to track down.

Static routing

To use static routing, it is necessary to configure each node in the network
with information on how to reach each other node in the network. For nodes
with a single interface and a single neighbour, this is as easy as instructing the
node that all other nodes can be reached via that neighbour, but for nodes with
multiple interfaces it is necessary to configure which neighbour to use to reach
each destination or group of destinations.
Static routing is configured in the Routing Table. The routing table can be seen
in the DTM|Routing page. The routing table consists of a number of routing
entries. Each routing entry contains the fields shown in Figure 76.
IP addresses
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