Static Routing

Question 1

How can a router learn about remote networks?

Answer 1

Manually or Dynamically

Question 2

Why is static routing used?

Answer 2

• Routes are not advertised over the network (better security)
• Static routes use less bandwidth
• The path a static route uses is known

Question 3

What is a stub network?

Answer 3

A network accessed by a single route, and the router has no other neighbors.

Question 4

What is a default static route?

Answer 4

▪ A default static route is a route that matches all packets.

▪ A default route identifies the gateway IP address to which the router
sends all IP packets that it does not have a learned or static route.

▪ A default static route is simply a static route with 0.0.0.0/0 as the
destination IPv4 address.