October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
28h 42m
English
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Chapter 12. Default Routes and On-Demand Routing
This chapter covers the following subjects:
• Fundamentals of Default Routes
• Fundamentals of On-Demand Routing
• Configuring Default Routes and ODR
Summarization has been examined in several chapters so far. Summarization conserves network resources by reducing the size of route tables and route advertisements. The smaller, simpler route tables can also make management and troubleshooting easier.
A summary address is an address that represents several, sometimes many, more-specific addresses. For example, the following four subnets
192.168.200.128/27192.168.200.160/27192.168.200.192/27192.168.200.224/27
can be summarized with the single address 192.168.200.128/25.
When examined in binary, the ...