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Chapter 38 Configuring IP Unicast Routing
Enabling IP Unicast Routing
You can display specific statistics, such as the contents of IP routing tables, caches, and databases; the
reachability of nodes; and the routing path that packets are taking through the network.
the privileged EXEC commands for displaying IP statistics.
Enabling IP Unicast Routing
By default, the switch is in Layer 2 switching mode, and IP routing is disabled. To use the Layer 3
capabilities of the switch, you must enable IP routing.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable IP routing:
Use the
no ip routing
global configuration command to disable routing.
Table 38-3
Commands to Display Caches, Tables, and Databases
Command
Purpose
show arp
Display the entries in the ARP table.
show hosts
Display the default domain name, style of lookup service, name-server hosts,
and the cached list of hostnames and addresses.
show ip aliases
Display IP addresses mapped to TCP ports (aliases).
show ip arp
Display the IP ARP cache.
show ip interface
[
interface-id
]
Display the IP status of interfaces.
show ip irdp
Display IRDP values.
show ip masks
address
Display the masks used for network addresses and the number of subnets
using each mask.
show ip redirects
Display the address of a default gateway.
show ip route
[
address
[
mask
]] | [
protocol
]
Display the current state of the routing table.
show ip route summary
Display the current state of the routing table in summary form.
Command
Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
ip routing
Enable IP routing.
Step 3
router
ip_routing_protocol
Specify an IP routing protocol. This step might include other
commands, such as specifying the networks to route with the
network
(RIP) router configuration command. For information on
specific protocols, see sections later in this chapter and to the
Cisco
IOS IP Configuration Guide, Release 12.2.
Note
The IP base feature set supports only RIP as a routing
protocol.
Step 4
end
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 5
show running-config
Verify your entries.
Step 6
copy running-config startup-config
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.