ZyXEL Communications Prestige 662HW Series, User Manual

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Prestige 662HW Series User’s Guide
Static Route Setup 29-1
Chapter 29
Static Route Setup
This chapter shows how to setup IP static routes.
29.1 IP Static Route Overview
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 or a remote network is beyond the
one that is directly connected to a remote node.
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 figure through remote node Router 1. However, the Prestige is unable to route a
packet to network N3 because it does not know that there is a route through remote node Router 1 (via
Router 2). The static routes allow you to tell the Prestige about the networks beyond the remote nodes.
Figure 29-1 Sample Static Routing Topology
29.2 Configuration
To configure an IP static route, use Menu 12 – Static Route Setup (shown next).