Protocol Independent Features
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OmniAccess 5740 Unified Services Gateway CLI Configuration Guide
PROTOCOL-INDEPENDENT CONFIGURATION COMMANDS
The following sections detail the Protocol-independent configuration commands in 
the OmniAccess 5740 USG.
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ONFIGURE STATIC ROUTES
Static routes are user-defined routes that cause packets moving between a 
source and a destination to take a specified path. Static routes can be important if 
the routing protocol cannot build a route to a particular destination.
When an interface goes down, all static routes through that interface are removed 
from the IP routing table. Also, when the address specified for the forwarding 
router in a static route is invalid (not reachable), the static route is removed from 
the IP routing table. 
• Static routes for Point-to-point links (like Serial, GRE tunnel interfaces) can be 
configured without Gateway IP address.
• Static routes for Ethernet interfaces have to be configured with gateway IP 
address.
• If gateway address as well as interface name is specified in the static route, then 
route is activated only if gateway is reachable through the specified interface.
Router might not be able to determine the routes to all other networks. In that 
case, you can configure default static route. 
Note: You can override static routes with dynamic routing information by assigning 
administrative distance.
You can configure route for same network through different interfaces, and with 
different weights. In this case, route with less administrative distance is used for 
forwarding. But, when route with less administrative distance becomes unreachable, 
router starts using route with the next highest administrative distance.
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XAMPLE 
ALU(config)# ip route 1.1.1.0/24 2.2.2.2
Command (in CM) Description
ip route {vrf <name>|destination 
network subnet-mask|destination 
network/prefix-length} {<gateway-ip-
address>|<interface-name> [<gateway-
ip-address>]}[<1-255>]
This command is used to 
configure a static route.