Руководство Пользователя для Netopia 3220-h

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Cayman 3220-H User’s Guide
How Your Cayman 3220-H Works
December 2000
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network. When the router receives a packet, it consults its routing 
table to decide where to send the packet. 
Static and Dynamic 
Routes
Routes to other networks can be entered and maintained manually 
(static routes) or acquired from other routers interactively (dynamic 
routes): 
Static routes identify pathways to destination networks that are 
stable over time or to networks that must always be available, 
even if a link is not currently open. These static routes let each 
router recognize how to reach the other, even if one router 
hasn't heard from the other recently. Static routes are usually 
required for a PPP link to be established “on demand,” since, 
without it, the router does not know which interface to route a 
packet over to reach the remote network. 
Dynamic routes identify pathways to destination networks that 
may change over time. Dynamic routes are created and 
configured when routers broadcast RIP (Routing Information 
Protocol) packets advertising the networks they can reach and 
the distance (number of routers) to each network. 
Selecting the Most 
Efficient Route
The efficiency of a route is expressed in terms of the route's metric, 
or hop count, which measures the number of routers a packet must 
pass through to reach its destination. A route to a network connected 
directly to the router has a metric of 1, a route to a network 
reachable through one other gateway has a metric of 2, and so on. 
Routes with metrics greater than 16 are considered unreachable and 
are discarded. 
The PPP interface tries to use the most efficient path to reach a 
remote destination network. When only one route (static or 
dynamic) to a remote network is available, the router uses that route 
to reach the network. When more than one route to a network is 
available (for example, when the router has one route to a network 
but learns of another one from a new router), the router selects the 
more efficient route (that is, the one with the lower metric, or hop 
count) and discards the less-efficient one.