Show Me Something About Routing

show route: Lists the entries in all the device's routing tables. Use: Lets you check which routes the device knows about, and see which ones the device has calculated to be the best ones (the active routes). Check that the device has a route to a specific destination. Variants include the following:

  • show route inet.0: Lists all IPv4 routes.
  • show route inet.6l: Lists all IPv6 routes.
  • show route detail: Adds route preference, next hop, and other information.
  • show route protocol: Lists all routes learned by the specified routing protocol.
  • show route forwarding-table: Lists the entries in all the device's forwarding tables. Use: Lets you check which active routes are actually being used to forward traffic from the device toward network destinations.

show rip neighbor: Lists the RIP routers (neighbors) in the network. Use: Shows you the device interfaces on which RIP neighbors can be reached, along with the neighbors' IP addresses and distance (metric, or hop count) to the neighbors.

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