Riverbed SteelHead 3070-SD, User Manual

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66 | Configuring BGP, OSPF, Static Routing, and Route Retraction on SteelHead SD
Defining static routes on SteelHead SD appliances
Defining static routes on SteelHead SD appliances
SteelHead SD provides static routing at the appliance level where it essentially acts as a router. The static
route is not tied to a particular zone. Static routes:
• support IPv4 destination networks.
• support the distance metric setting that prioritizes the routing protocol when two routes have the
same route destination.
To define static routes
1. Choose Routing > Static Routes.
2. Click Add Static Route .
Figure 7-16. Adding a static route
3. Select the appliance to which you want to add the static route.
4. Specify the IPv4 destination mask address.
5. Specify the IPv4 address for the gateway.
6. Specify the distance metric to prioritize the routing protocol where two routes provide the same
route destination. The preferred route has the least distance metric. The default value is 2, giving the
static route precedence over routes discovered by dynamic routing protocols but not over directly
connected routes. The range is from 2 to 253.
This table shows the default values per route source.
Route source Default distance
Connected interface 0
Static route 1
EIGRP summary route 5
BGP external (eBGP) 20
EIGRP internal 90