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should not be able to ping. This is because Phiber has no way to direct traffic,
even though we did it on Optik. We must add another static route from Phiber to
Optik to allow workstation A to be able to ping workstation B. Go ahead and add
the route. (Can’t tell you everything step-by-step, otherwise you wouldn’t learn
much…ok…if you get stuck you can check the answers.)
7. Static routes are really good for troubleshooting. Later on when you learn about
setting up routers with multiple routes to a destination you will learn to use static
source
router
destination
router
routes to “force” communication over one path in particular to test that specific
path. Suppose the route given by the “
“ in the picture above was
chosen by the source router to be the “best path” to the destination router. But we
wanted to test the capabilities of a “lesser path” (given as “
“) to the
destination router. We could force the route with a static route.
8. We can actually specify the interface, rather than using the IP address for setting
up a static route (told you we’d come back to it!). So instead of this:
optik(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 179.40.6.1
For the same thing we could use this:
optik(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 serial0/0
If you forget your options then use your help command:
optik(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 ?
A.B.C.D Forwarding router's address
FastEthernet FastEthernet IEEE 802.3
Loopback Loopback interface
Null Null interface
Serial Serial
232