IP Routing Commands 619
no ip route 
ip addr
 {
subnetmask
 | 
prefix
 
length
} 
nextHopRtr
 [ 
preference 
]
•
ip-address
 — IP address of destination interface.
•
subnet-mask
 — Subnet mask of destination interface.
•
prefix-length
 — Length of prefix. Must be preceded with a forward slash (/). (Range: 0-32 
bits)
•
nextHopRtr
 — IP address of the next hop router.
•
preference
 — Specifies the preference value, a.k.a. administrative distance, of an individual 
static route. (Range: 1-255)
Default Configuration
Default value of preference is 1.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
For the static routes to be visible, you must:
• Enable ip routing globally.
• Enable ip routing for the interface.
• Confirm that the associated link is also up.
Example
The following example identifies the 
ip-address subnet-mask, next-hop-ip
 and a preference 
value of 200.
console(config)#ip route 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.20.1 
metric 200
ip route default
Use the ip route default command in Global Configuration mode to configure the default 
route. Use the no form of the command to delete the default route.
Syntax
ip route default 
next-hop-ip
 [ 
preference
 ]
no ip route default
 next-hop-ip
 [ 
preference 
]
•
next-hop-ip
 — IP address of the next hop router.