ZyXEL Communications P-312 manual IP Static Route Setup, Example of Static Routing Topology

P312 Broadband Security Gateway

Chapter 5

IP Static Route Setup

This chapter shows you how to configure static routes with your Prestige. Static routes tell the Prestige routing information that it cannot learn automatically through other means. This can arise in cases where RIP is disabled on the LAN.

Each remote node specifies only the network to which the gateway is directly connected, and the Prestige has no knowledge of the networks beyond. For instance, the Prestige knows about network N2 in the following diagram through remote node Router 1. However, the Prestige is unable to route a packet to network N3 because it doesn’t know that there is a route through the same remote node Router 1 (via gateway Router 2). The static routes are for you to tell the Prestige about the networks beyond the remote nodes.

Figure 5-1 Example of Static Routing Topology

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