RuggedCom RX1100, RX1000 manual Routing And Gateways, Default Route Table, Configured Static Routes

Chapter 4 – Configuring Networking

This menu allows you to configure a dummy interface. Normally the router is reachable on any of its interface addresses, whether the interface is active or not. When OSPF and link detection is used, inactive interfaces are not advertised to the network and thus not reachable. A dummy interface is always advertised and thus reachable.

Routing And Gateways

Figure 35: Routing And Gateways

This menu allows you to configure the default gateway address and static routes. Static routes specify a way to forward subnets of traffic that cannot be associated with the subnets of configured interfaces. The gateway address is the address that is used to forward traffic that can not be routed to configured interfaces or to static routes.

This menu also allows user to convert manually entered static routes to permanently configured static routes.

Default Route Table

The first table of this menu configures the default gateway address.

Note: Don't configure a default gateway if you plan to provide one from a WAN, PPPoE or modem interface. Don't manually configure configure the default gateway in the /etc/network/interfaces file, configure the default gateway from this menu.

If the default gateway is configured but the actual default gateway in use is different, the menu will display a warning accompanied by the actual gateway. Use the Save button below the table to change the default gateway setting.

Configured Static Routes

This table configures static and host routes.

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