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The preference is an integer value from 1 to 255. You can specify the preference value
(sometimes called administrative distance of an individual static route. For more
information, see the Preference description in Table 19.
7. Ente
r a description for this route.
This is the description of this route that ide
ntifies the route. The description must consist
of alpha-numeric, dash or underscore characters and have a length in the range from (0
to 31).
8. Click Add.
To delete one or more static routes:
1. Sel
ect the check box next to each route to remove.
2. Click Dele
te.
The Route Status table provides information about the
static routes configured on the switch
and the dynamic routes the switch has learned.
Table 19. Routing table information
Field Description
Route Type Indicates whether the learned route is a st
atic or default route.
Network Address The IP route prefix for the destination.
Subnet Mask Also referred to as the subnet/network mask, this indicates the portion of the
IP interface address that identifies the attached network.
Protocol This field tells which protocol created the
specified route. The possibilities
are one of the following:
Local
•Static
Route Type This field can be Connected or Static or Dynamic based on the protocol.
Next Hop Interface The outgoing router interface to use when forwarding traffic to the
de
stination.
Next Hop IP Address The outgoing router IP address to use when forwarding traffic to the next
ro
uter (if any) in the path towards the destination. The next router is always
one of the adjacent neighbors or the IP address of the local interface for a
directly attached network.
Preference The preference is an integer value from
1 to 255. The user can specify the
preference value of an individual static route.
Metric Administrative cost of the path to the destination.