Juniper Networks® Field Guide and Reference

Creating Routing Tables

By default, the JUNOS software maintains three routing tables: one for unicast routes, one for multicast routes, and a third for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). You can configure additional routing tables to support situations where you need to separate out a particular group of routes or where you need greater flexibility in manipulating routing information. In general, most operations can be per-formed without resorting to the complexity of additional routing tables. However, creating additional routing tables has several specific uses, including importing interface routes into more than one routing table, applying different routing policies when exporting the same route to different peers, and providing greater ...