Installation and Getting Started Guide
4.Click on the General link to display the IP configuration panel.
5.Click the Static Route link.
•If the device does not have any IP static routes, the Static Route configuration panel is displayed.
•If a static route is already configured and you are adding a new route, click on the Add Static Route link to display the Static Route configuration panel.
•If you are modifying an existing static route, click on the Modify button to the right of the row describing the static route to display the Static Route configuration panel.
6.Enter the network address for the route in the Network field.
7.Enter the network mask in the Mask field.
8.Select the
•Address – The
•Interface – The next hop is a port, loopback interface, or virtual interface on the routing switch.
9.Enter the
•Address – Enter the IP address of the
•Interface – Select the port, loopback interface, or virtual interface from the Next Hop (by Interface) field’s pulldown menu(s). Loopback interfaces and virtual interfaces are listed in the Port pulldown menu, not in the Slot pulldown menu. To select a loopback interface or a virtual interface on a Chassis device, ignore the Slot pulldown menu and select the interface from the Port pulldown menu.
10.Optionally change the metric by editing the value in the Metric field. You can specify a number from 1 – 16. The default is 1.
NOTE: If you specify 16, RIP considers the metric to be infinite and thus also considers the route to be unreachable.
11.Optionally change the administrative distance by editing the value in the Distance field. When comparing otherwise equal routes to a destination, the routing switch prefers lower administrative distances over higher ones, so make sure you use a low value for your default route. The default is 1.
12.Click the Add button to save the change to the device’s
13.Repeat steps 8 – 12 for each static route to the same destination.
14.Select the Save link at the bottom of the dialog. Select Yes when prompted to save the configuration change to the
Configuring a “Null” Route
You can configure the routing switch to drop IP packets to a specific network or host address by configuring a “null” (sometimes called “null0”) static route for the address. When the routing switch receives a packet destined for the address, the routing switch drops the packet instead of forwarding it.
To configure a null static route, use the following CLI method.
USING THE CLI
To configure a null static route to drop packets destined for network 209.157.22.x, enter the following commands.
HP9300(config)# ip route 209.157.22.0 255.255.255.0 null0
HP9300(config)# write memory
Syntax: ip route
or
Syntax: ip route
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