Netgear M4100-D12G (GSM5212v1h1) - 10‐port GE + 2 GE Combo L2 Managed PD Switch Guía De Administador

You can then activate RIP or OSPF, used by routers to exchange route information, on top of 
IP Routing. RIP is more often used in smaller networks, while OSPF was designed for larger 
and more complex topologies.

The following figure shows a Layer 3 switch configured for port routing. It connects three 
different subnets, each connected to a different port. 

Subnet 2

Subnet 3

Subnet 5

Port 1/0/3
192.130.3.1

Port 1/0/5
192.64.4.1

Port 1/0/2
192.150.2.2

Layer 3 switch
acting as a router

The example is shown as CLI commands and as a Web interface procedure.

The following script shows the commands that you would use to configure a M4100 Managed 
Switch to provide the port routing support shown in 

Use the following command to enable routing for the switch. Execution of the command 
enables IP forwarding by default.

(Netgear Switch) #config

(Netgear Switch) (Config)#ip routing 

(Netgear Switch) (Config)#exit