Configuring Static Null Routing
You add a static route to a Null 0 interface when an access server with many clients is in your network. This causes Netvisor ONE to install host routes in the access server routing table. To ensure reach-ability to these clients, while not flooding the entire network with host routes, other routers in the network typically have a summary route pointing to the access server. In this type of configuration, the access server has the same summary route pointing to the access server Null 0 interface. If not, routing loops may occur when outside hosts attempt to reach IP addresses not currently assigned to a client but are part of the summary route. The access server bounces the packets back over the access server default route into the core network, and because the access server lacks a specific host route for the destination.
This feature introduces a new parameter for the command, vrouter-static-route-add:
CLI (network-admin@switch) > vrouter-static-route-add vrouter-name vr1 network 192.168.2.0/24 gateway-ip ip-address
drop Drop packets matching this route
Netvisor ONE designates the drop keyword as mutually exclusive with keywords such as gateway or interface. Either drop or gateway must be used for valid syntax. Static routes with gateways cannot co-exist with drop routes for the same prefix.
CLI (network-admin@switch) > vrouter-static-route-show
vrouter-name network gateway-ip bfd-dst-ip distance drop
------------ --------------- ------------- ---------- -------- ----
vr1 192.168.20.0/24 :: :: 1 yes
vr1 192.168.30.0/24 192.168.100.2 :: 1 no
vr1 192.168.22.0/23 :: :: 1 yes
CLI (network-admin@switch) > vrouter-routes-show format network, type, interface, next-hop, distance
vrouter-name network type interface next-hop distance
------------ --------------------- --------- --------- ------------- --------
vr1 192.168.20.0/24 static Null0 1
vr1 192.168.22.0/23 static Null0 1
vr1 192.168.30.0/24 static eth2.4092 192.168.100.2 1
vr1 192.168.100.0/24 connected eth2.4092
vr1 2018:192:168:100::/96 connected eth2.4092
vr1 fe80::/64 connected eth2.4092