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Fatima Jinnah Women University: Routing - Static Routing

This document provides information about static routing. It defines static routing as a routing table that is manually created and maintained by a network administrator. While it provides granular control, static routing is not fault tolerant and any changes require manual intervention. The document outlines advantages of minimal overhead and control, and disadvantages of lack of dynamics and impracticality for large networks. It introduces the topic of static routing that will be implemented for a given topology.

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Fatima Jinnah Women University: Routing - Static Routing

This document provides information about static routing. It defines static routing as a routing table that is manually created and maintained by a network administrator. While it provides granular control, static routing is not fault tolerant and any changes require manual intervention. The document outlines advantages of minimal overhead and control, and disadvantages of lack of dynamics and impracticality for large networks. It introduces the topic of static routing that will be implemented for a given topology.

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FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY

Department Of Software Engineering

LAB#8
Summary:
Items Description
Course Title Computer Communication and Networks
Lab Title Routing
Duration 3 Hours
Operating System Windows 7
/Tool/Language Cisco Packet Tracer Software
Objective Routing-Static Routing

Routing - Static Routing


There are two basic methods of building a routing table:
 Static Routing
 Dynamic Routing

A static routing table is created, maintained, and updated by a network administrator,


manually. A static route to every network must be configured on every router for full
connectivity. This provides a granular level of control over routing, but quickly becomes
impractical on large networks.

Routers will not share static routes with each other, thus reducing CPU/RAM overhead and
saving bandwidth. However, static routing is not fault-tolerant, as any change to the routing
infrastructure (such as a link going down, or a new network added) requires manual
intervention. Routers operating in a purely static environment cannot seamlessly choose a
better route if a link becomes unavailable.

Static routes have an Administrative Distance (AD) of 1, and thus are always preferred over
dynamic routes, unless the default AD is changed. A static route with an adjusted AD is called a
floating static route, and is covered in greater detail in another guide.

The following briefly outlines the advantages and disadvantages of static routing:

Advantages of Static Routing


 Minimal CPU/Memory overhead
 No bandwidth overhead (updates are not shared between routers)
 Granular control on how traffic is routed

Disadvantages of Static Routing


FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY
Department Of Software Engineering

 Infrastructure changes must be manually adjusted


 No “dynamic” fault tolerance if a link goes down
 Impractical on large network

Implement Static Routing for below topology:

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