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In this tutorial we will connect two routers via static route with GNS3.
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Static route and Dynamic route
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Static route tells the device exactly where to send traffic, no matter what. Static route Troubleshooting 1
is often used when your network has only a few routers or there is only one route
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from a source to a destination. Dynamic routes, on the other hand, use a routing
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protocol to determine the best path and the routes can be changed depending on
specific parameters (like bandwidth, delay, cost...). With dynamic routes, routers CCNA - Drag and Drop
can communicate with each other to exchange routing information. In ROUTE 642- 1
902 you will learn about dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP and BGP
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(RIP is also a dynamic routing protocol but it is not mentioned in ROUTE).
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The simple syntax of static route:
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ip route <destination><subnet mask><next hop IP address or outbound 3
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Now we consider a real-world example of static routing. Suppose that your 4

company has 2 branches located in New York and Chicago. As the administrator CCNA - Subnetting
of the network, you are tasked to connect them so that employees in the two LANs
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can communicate with each other. After careful consideration you decided to
connect them via static route. CCNA - Access List

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In GNS3, place 2 routers and connect them as the image below, I used IOS c2600-
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loopback interfaces to simulate two Ethernet LANs. Protocol

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R0(config)#interface s0/0
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R0(config-if)#ip address 12.12.12.1 255.255.255.0
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R0(config-if)#interface lo0
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R0(config-if)#ip address 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0
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R0(config-if)#exit
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Configuring interfaces on R1
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R0(config)#interface s0/0 CCNP - SWITCH
R0(config-if)#ip address 12.12.12.2 255.255.255.0 Website
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R0(config-if)#ip address 172.16.0.1 255.255.0.0 Website
R0(config-if)#exit CCDA Website

Now if we check the routing table of R0 & R1 by the command show ip route on 9tut Forum
both R0 and R1
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The letter "C" means "connected" or "directly connected". So there are 2 networks
that are directly connected to R0: 10.0.0.0/8 and 12.12.12.0

On R1

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R1# show ip route

Configuring static route on R0

R0(config)#ip route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 12.12.12.2

Configuring static route on R1

R1(config)#ip route 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 12.12.12.1

Notice that static route works one-way. It means we have to add static route to both
R0 and R1 so that R0 and R1 can communicate.

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Now try to ping each far end network

(Note: In fact, R0 can successfully ping R1 right after adding the static route to R0)

Administrative distance of a static route.

After adding two static routes in R0 & R1 routers, the routing tables of two routers
contain these lines:

S 10.0.0.0/8 [1/0] via 12.12.12.1 (on R1)

S 172.16.0.0/16 [1/0] via 12.12.12.2 (on R0)

The "S" letter tells us this is a static route. The networks 10.0.0.0/8 and
172.16.0.0/16 are the destinations of this static route and if the routers want to
reach them they must send packets to 12.12.12.1 (on R1) and 12.12.12.2 (on R2).
These parameters are straightforward and easy to understand. But what is [1/0]?
Well, 1 is the administrative distance (AD) and 0 is the metric of that static route.

The administrative distance is a measure of trustworthiness where lower numbers

are considered to be more trustworthy than higher numbers. The route with the
lowest administrative distance value is the preferred route that the router selects.
Administrative distance is the value from 0 to 255.

Directly connected routes have an administrative distance of 0. Static routes have

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an administrative distance of 1 so in the outputs above you will see the
administrative distance of both static routes are 1.

The router treats a static route pointing to an interface the same as a connected
interface so the its AD is 0. If you configure a static route pointing to an exiting
interface (for example: "ip route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 s0/0" on R0) then the AD
will not be shown.

(For your information, EIGRP has an administrative distance of 90. IGRP has an
administrative distance of 100. OSPF has an administrative distance of 110. And
RIP has an administrative distance of 120)

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Comments
gowtham saran Oct-13-2010
thanks nice work. very easy to understand

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