Introducing the routing table and static routes

- I'm now going to talk about routing,…which is the primary function of a router.…The router uses what's called a routing table…to determine where to send packets…across the network.…The routing table contains a set of routes…that describe which outgoing interface…on the router it will use to reach a particular network.…Initially the routing table will only contain…a list of the directly-connected networks.…Those are the networks or the IP addresses…that are configured on the router itself.…

In order to communicate with the outlying networks,…routes must either be statically configured,…that means you, the network administrator,…have to enter them, or they can be dynamically learned…through a routing protocol.…I am first going to show you how to configure a static route…to one of the remote networks in the topology…using the next hop IP address,…and then I will show you how to configure a static route…using the exit interface argument.…I will also demonstrate how to configure…a static default route,…which is a very special type of route…