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Routing Protocol

This chapter shows you how to configure the routing functions.

23.1 Static Route Overview

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

Click Routing Protocol in the navigation panel and then Static Routing to display the screen as shown.

Figure 84 Static Routing

The following table describes the related labels you use to create a static route.

Table 57 Static Routing

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

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

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name for this route. This is for identification purpose only.

 

 

Destination

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

IP 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

Enter the subnet mask for this destination.

Mask

 

 

 

 

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