Chapter 4 Status Screens

4.2.2 Route Info

Routing is based on the destination address only and the P-870HN-51D takes the shortest path to forward a packet. Click Status > Route Info to access this screen. Use this screen to view the internal routing table on the P-870HN-51D.

Figure 22 Status > Route Info

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 6 Status > Route Info

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Destination

This indicates the destination IP address of this route.

 

 

Gateway

This indicates the IP address of the gateway that helps forward this route’s

 

traffic.

 

 

Subnet

This indicates the destination subnet mask of this route.

Mask

 

 

 

Flag

This indicates the route status.

 

Up: The route is up.

 

!(Reject): The route is blocked and will force a route lookup to fail.

 

Gateway: The route uses a gateway to forward traffic.

 

Host: The target of the route is a host.

 

Reinstate: The route is reinstated for dynamic routing.

 

Dynamic (redirect): The route is dynamically installed by a routing daemon

 

or redirect

 

Modified (redirect): The route is modified from a routing daemon or

 

rederict.

 

 

Metric

The metric represents the "cost of transmission". A router determines the

 

best route for transmission by choosing a path with the lowest "cost". The

 

smaller the number, the lower the "cost".

 

 

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