Viewing the IP Forwarding Table
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The fields on the IP Forwarding Table have the following meanings:
Network
The destination network IP address.
Mask
The IP subnet mask.
Gateway
The network address of the gateway (the router from which this address was learned).
Metric
The metric associated with this network. Generally, this is a RIP “hop” count, or the number
of hops the network is away from this router.
Group VLAN Id
The group and VLAN number from which this IP address was learned.
Protocol
The way in which this route was learned, for example, through RIP.