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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Configuration Guide using the CLI
Chapter22 Configuring Static and Default Routes
Configuring Static and Default Routes
Examples
The following example shows static routes that are equal cost routes that direct traffic to three different
gateways on the outside interface. The ASA distributes the traffic among the specified gateways.
hostname(config)# route outside 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
hostname(config)# route outside 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2
hostname(config)# route outside 10.10.10.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.3
Configuring a Default Static Route
A default route identifies the gateway IP address to which the ASA sends all IP packets for which it does
not have a learned or static route. A default static route is simply a static route with 0.0.0.0/0 as the
destination IP address. Routes that identify a specific destination take precedence over the default route.
Note In Versions 7.0(1) and later, if you have two default routes configured on different interfaces that have
different metrics, the connection to the ASA that is made from the higher metric interface fails, but
connections to the ASA from the lower metric interface succeed as expected.
You can define up to three equal cost default route entries per device. Defining more than one equal cost
default route entry causes the traffic sent to the default route to be distributed among the specified
gateways. When defining more than one default route, you must specify the same interface for each
entry.
If you attempt to define more than three equal cost default routes or a default route with a different
interface than a previously defined default route, you receive the following message:
“ERROR: Cannot add route entry, possible conflict with existing routes.”
You can define a separate default route for tunneled traffic along with the standard default route. When
you create a default route with the tunneled option, all traffic from a tunnel terminating on the ASA that
cannot be routed using learned or static routes is sent to this route. For traffic emerging from a tunnel,
this route overrides any other configured or learned default routes.

Limitations on Configuring a Default Static Route

The following restrictions apply to default routes with the tunneled option:
•Do not enable unicast RPF (ip verify reverse-path command) on the egress interface of a tunneled
route, because this setting causes the session to fail.
•Do not enable TCP intercept on the egress interface of the tunneled route, because this setting causes
the session to fail.
•Do not use the VoIP inspection engines (CTIQBE, H.323, GTP, MGCP, RTSP, SIP, SKINNY), the
DNS inspect engine, or the DCE RPC inspection engine with tunneled routes, because these
inspection engines ignore the tunneled route.
•You cannot define more than one default route with the tunneled option.
•ECMP for tunneled traffic is not supported.
To add or edit a tunneled default static route, enter the following command: