Verifying the Static Route Configuration

Purpose

Verify that the static routes are in the routing table and that those routes are active.

Action

From the CLI, enter the show route terse command.

Sample Output

user@host> show route terse

inet.0: 20 destinations, 20 routes (20 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
+ = Active Route, - = Last Active, * = Both

A Destination        P Prf   Metric 1   Metric 2  Next hop        AS path
* 192.168.47.5/32        S   5                        Reject
* 172.16.0.0/12      S   5                       >192.168.71.254
* 192.168.0.0/18     S   5                       >192.168.71.254
* 192.168.40.0/22    S   5                       >192.168.71.254
* 192.168.64.0/18    S   5                       >192.168.71.254
* 192.168.64.0/21    D   0                       >fxp0.0
* 192.168.71.246/32  L   0                        Local
* 192.168.220.4/30   D   0                       >ge-0/0/1.0
* 192.168.220.5/32   L   0                        Local
* 192.168.220.8/30   D   0                       >ge-0/0/2.0
* 192.168.220.9/32   L   0                        Local
* 192.168.220.12/30  D   0                       >ge-0/0/3.0
* 192.168.220.13/32  L   0                        Local
* 192.168.220.17/32  L   0                        Reject
* 192.168.220.21/32  L   0                        Reject
* 192.168.220.24/30  D   0                       >at-1/0/0.0
* 192.168.220.25/32  L   0                        Local
* 192.168.220.28/30  D   0                       >at-1/0/1.0
* 192.168.220.29/32  L   0                        Local
* 224.0.0.9/32       R 100          1             MultiRecv

Meaning

The output shows a list of the routes that are currently in the inet.0 routing table. Verify the following information:

Each configured static route is present. Routes are listed in ascending order by IP address. Static routes are identified with an S in the protocol (P) column of the output.
Each static route is active. Routes that are active show the next-hop IP address in the Next hop column. If a route's next-hop address is unreachable, the next-hop address is identified as Reject. These routes are not active routes, but they appear in the routing table because the passive attribute is set.
The preference for each static route is correct. The preference for a particular route is listed in the Prf column of the output.

Verifying the Static Route Configuration

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