Chapter 34 Static Route

34.2 Configuring Static Routing

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

Figure 155 IP Application > Static Routing

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

Table 108 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

Routing is 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

 

 

 

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 begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Clear

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

 

 

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