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| IP Routing Features |
| Overview of IP Routing |
| IP Route Table |
| The IP route table contains routing paths to IP destinations. |
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N o t e | The default gateway, which is configured as part of the IP address configura |
| tion described in chapter 7, “IP Addressing”, is used only when routing is not |
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The IP route table can receive the routing paths from the following sources:
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■A static IP route, which is a
The IP route table contains the best path to a destination. When the software receives paths from more than one of the sources listed above, the software compares the administrative distance of each path and selects the path with the lowest administrative distance. The administrative distance is a protocol- independent value from 1 – 255.
The IP route table is displayed by entering the CLI command show ip route from any context level in the console CLI. Here is an example of an entry in the IP route table:
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1.1.0.0 | 255.255.0.0 | 99.1.1.2 | connected |
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Each IP route table entry contains the destination’s IP address and subnet mask and the IP address of the
To configure a static IP route, see “Configuring a Static IP Route” on page
IP Forwarding Cache
The IP forwarding cache provides a