Chapter 35 Static Route

35.2 Configuring Static Routing

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

Figure 169 IP Application > Static Routing

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

Table 113 IP Application > Static Routing

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Active

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

 

 

Name

Enter a descriptive name (up to 10 printable ASCII characters) for

 

identification purposes.

 

 

Destination

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

IP Address

 

 

 

IP Subnet

Enter the subnet mask for this destination. Routing is always based on

Mask

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.

 

 

Gateway IP

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

Address

neighbor of your Switch that will forward the packet to the destination.

 

The gateway must be a router on the same segment as your Switch.

 

 

Metric

The metric represents the “cost” of transmission for routing purposes. IP

 

routing uses hop count as the measurement of cost, with a minimum of 1

 

for directly connected networks. Enter a number that approximates the

 

cost for this link. The number need not be precise, but it must be between

 

1 and 15. In practice, 2 or 3 is usually a good number.

 

 

Add

Click Add to insert a new static route to the Switch’s run-time memory.

 

The Switch loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the

 

Save link on the top navigation panel to save your changes to the non-

 

volatile memory when you are done configuring.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to reset the above fields to your previous configuration.

 

 

Clear

Click Clear to set the above fields back to the factory defaults.

 

 

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