ES-2108 Series User’s Guide

CHAPTER 19

Static Route

This chapter shows you how to configure static routes.

19.1 Configuring Static Route

Static routes tell the switch how to forward IP traffic when you configure the TCP/IP parameters manually.

Click IP Application, Static Routing in the navigation panel to display the screen as shown.

Figure 54 Static Routing

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 36 Static Routing

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Active

This field allows you to activate/deactivate this static route.

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable ASCII characters) for identification

 

purposes.

Destination IP

This parameter specifies the IP network address of the final destination. Routing is

Address

always based on network number. If you need to specify a route to a single host, use

 

a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255 in the subnet mask field to force the network

 

number to be identical to the host ID.

IP Subnet Mask

Enter the subnet mask for this destination.

 

 

Gateway IP

Enter the IP address of the gateway. The gateway is an immediate neighbor of your

Address

switch that will forward the packet to the destination. The gateway must be a router on

 

the same segment as your switch.

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