IBM 8260 manual ∙ Next Hop, Mask, Type, ∙ Port, ∙ Protocol, ∙ Metric

∙Next Hop

∙

∙

This is the IP address of the node that is the next stop for a packet en route to its destination address. The next hop must be directly connected to the interface for which this route is defined.

Mask

This is the subnet mask associated with the destination address entry.

Type

This field indicates whether the destination address is directly connected to this interface. The valid values are:

−Direct

−Indirect

−Other

−Invalid

∙Port

This field specifies the logical port on which the packets should be forwarded.

∙Protocol

This is a read-only field indicating whether the route has been statically configured or learned by one of the routing protocols including ICMP.

∙Metric

This field indicates the cost of the route to its destination. A value of 16 means unreachable.

Note that in the example given above, the last entry is a static route added to the table whereas the other three entries are automatically learned by the Multiprotocol Interconnect module.

8.Optionally, you may specify one or more entries in the ARP table to be used by the Multiprotocol Interconnect module to resolve IP addresses to the correct MAC address. To do so, you must select IP Net To Media Table from the IP Menu. An example of the resulting panel is shown in Figure 166 on page 286.

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