02-19-2008 08:58 PM - edited 03-05-2019 09:15 PM
Has anyone tell what is "candidate default"? By the way, we often see one route path has been marked "*" on its prefix when multiple equal cost route paths presenting at "show ip route x.x.x.x". What does it mean?
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02-19-2008 11:34 PM
Hi
When you have equal cost paths to a destination the router will do per-packet or per-destination load sharing.
The * is next to the route that is being used at that precise moment for forwarding packets. If you kept running the same command "sh ip route x.x.x.x" you should see the * moving between the three route entries.
HTH
Jon
02-19-2008 09:09 PM
Unlike the ip default-gateway command, you can use ip default-network when ip routing is enabled on the Cisco router. When you configure ip default-network the router considers routes to that network for installation as the gateway of last resort on the router.
For every network configured with ip default-network, if a router has a route to that network, that route is flagged as a candidate default route
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/default.html
regards
shivlu
02-19-2008 11:06 PM
02-19-2008 11:34 PM
Hi
When you have equal cost paths to a destination the router will do per-packet or per-destination load sharing.
The * is next to the route that is being used at that precise moment for forwarding packets. If you kept running the same command "sh ip route x.x.x.x" you should see the * moving between the three route entries.
HTH
Jon
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