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Routing
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M6100 Web Management User Guide
Learned Routes
Field Description
Network Address The IP route prefix for the destination.
Subnet Mask Also referred to as the subnet/network mask, this
indicates the portion of the IP interface address that
identifies the attached network.
Protocol This field tells which protocol created the specified
route.
The possibilities are one of the following:
• Local
• Static
Route Type This field can be either default or static. If creating a
default route, all that needs to be specified is the next
hop IP address, otherwise each field needs to be
specified.
Next Hop Interface The outgoing router interface to use when forwarding
traf
fic to the destination.
Next Hop IP Address The outgoing router IP address to use when
forwarding traf
fic to the next router (if any) in the path
towards the destination. The next router will always
be one of the adjacent neighbors or the IP address of
the local interface for a directly attached network.
Preference The preference is an integer value from (0 to 255).
The user can specify the preference value
(sometimes called “administrative distance”) of an
individual static route.
Among routes to the same
destination, the route with the lowest preference
value is the route entered into the forwarding
database. By specifying the preference of a static
route, the user controls whether a static route is
more or less preferred than routes from dynamic
routing protocols. The preference also controls
whether a static route is more or less preferred than
other static routes to the same destination.
Metric Administrative cost of the path to the destination. If
no value is entered, default is 1.
The range is 0 - 255.
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Route Preferences
Use this panel to configure the default preference for each protocol, e.g., 60 for static routes,
120 for RIP. These values are arbitrary values in the range of 1 to 255 and are independent of
route metrics. Most routing protocols use a route metric to determine the shortest path known
to the protocol, independent of any other protocol.