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Destination Network a.b.c.d
The value in this text box is the IP address of the destination subnet, network or IP address
for the route. If the router receives a packet with a destination IP address that matches the
Destination Network/Mask combination it will route the packet through the interface
specified below.
Mask a.b.c.d
The value in this text box is the network mask that is used in conjunction with the above
destination network address to specify the.
Gateway a.b.c.d
The value in this text box is used to override the default gateway IP address configured for
the Ethernet interfaces. Packets matching the route will use the gateway address specified
in the route rather than the address specified on the Ethernet interface configuration page.
This parameter does NOT apply to routes using PPP interfaces.
Interface x,y
The interface used to route the packets is selected from the drop-down list and the interface
instance number is entered into the adjacent text box. The available options are “None”,
“PPP”, “Ethernet” and “Tunnel”.
Use PPP sub-configuration
If PPP sub-configs are defined, this text will appear in normal highlighting (i.e. not “greyed
out”) and text box will accept the number for the desired sub-config to use on this route.
This parameter will not appear at all on those models which do not support PPP sub-
configurations.
Metric n
The value in this text box is the routing metric to use when the interface is connected. This
should have a value between 1 and 16 and is used to select which route should be used
when the subnet for a packet matches more than one of the IP route entries.
Each route may be assigned a “connected metric” and a “disconnected metric”. The
connected metric parameter is used to specify the metric for a route whose interface is
active. The disconnected metric is used to specify the metric for a route whose interface is
inactive. Normally both values should be the same but in some advanced routing scenarios
necessary to use different values.
If a particular route fails it will automatically have its metric set to 16 which means that it is
temporarily deemed as being “out of service”. The default out of service period is set by the
IP route out of service parameter on the .... page. Note however, that this default period
may be overwritten in certain situations such as when a firewall stateful inspection rule
specifies a different period. When a route is out of service, any alternative routes (with
matching subnets) will be used first.
Related CLI Commands
Entity
Instance
Parameter
Values
Equivalent Web Parameter
route n descr Up to 20 characters Description
route n IPaddr
Valid IP address
a.b.c.d
Destination Network a.b.c.d
route n mask
Valid netmask
a.b.c.d
Mask a.b.c.d
route n gateway
Valid IP address
a.b.c.d
Gateway
route n ll_ent Blank,PPP,ETH,TUN Interface x,y