Specifying the Next Hop of the Static Route

When you configure an individual static route in the route part of the static statement, specify how to reach the destination (in next-hop) in one of the following ways:

• next-hop address—IPv4 or IPv6 address of the next hop to the destination, specified as:

• IPv4 or IPv6 address of the next hop
• Interface name (for point-to-point interfaces only)
• address or interface-name to specify an IP address of a multipoint interface or an interface name of a point-to-point interface.
  

  NOTE: If an interface becomes unavailable, all configured static routes on that interface are withdrawn from the routing table.

  
  

• next-table routing-table-name—Name of the next routing table to the destination.
• reject—Do not forward packets addressed to this destination. Instead, drop the packets, send ICMP (or ICMPv6) unreachable messages to the packets' originators, and install a reject route for this destination into the routing table.
• discard—Do not forward packets addressed to this destination. Instead, drop the packets, do not send ICMP (or ICMPv6) unreachable messages to the packets' originators, and install a reject route for this destination into the routing table.
• receive—Cause packets to the destination to be received by the local router.