Paradyne 8546, 8540 manual IP Router Options 2, Routing Table Routing Information Window

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Table 7-10. IP Router Options (2 of 3)

Routing Table (continued) B-E-A

Routing Information Window

In addition, the lower right-hand corner of the screen displays a Route Information window with detailed information about the selected destination. The Route Information window displays the following information:

Route # ± Displays the number of the route for the given destination. If more than one route exists for the given destination, you may view subsequent routes by entering the routing entry number at the [Route # or <RET>]: prompt.

Next Hop ± Indicates the IP address of the next hop device for the specified destination.

Protocol ± Displays the type of routing protocol by which the route was learned (i.e., static or direct).

Preference ± Specifies how the routes are sorted. The lower the number, the higher the priority. However, if a static route is created with a preference of 0, the route will be given a preference of 50.

Flags ± Indicates if a route is a Host and if the next hop is valid.

Interface ± Displays the name of the interface associated with the destination address.

State ± Indicates the various state information about the route including Permanent, Deleted, SRC, Host, Net, Subn.

Metric ± Not applicable.

Age ± Displays the length of time in seconds that a non-permanent route has been active.

Revision # ± Number of changes to the routing table prior to the creation of this route, with the change that includes this route also added in. For example, if the revision number is 89, then this route was created with the 89th change to the routing table.

Max Age ± Displays the maximum length of time in seconds before a non-permanent route has been active.

Ref Count ± Number of times this route has been used to route a packet since the last reboot.

ARP Table B-E-B

Displays the current Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache. Permanent entries show PERM PUB PROX. (See Flags.)

Line ± Sequential number of line.

IP Address ± Internet Protocol Address.

Ethernet Address ± Ethernet address associated with the IP address. (An incomplete can be shown in this column for some internal entries such as the backplane.)

Min ± Number of minutes since this entry was last used.

Interface ± The interface on which this ARP request was answered.

Flags ± Various flags associated with this entry. PERM = permanent, PUB = publish this entry (respond for other hosts), PROX = proxy ARP (card will proxy ARP for this IP address).

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