The gateway is the forwarding IP
address; it defines how to reach the IP address specified by this route. When working with
locally attached subnet routes, the gateway address is the IP address assigned to the interface
attached to the subnet. When working with a remote route, the gateway address is a directly
reachable IP address assigned to a neighboring router.
IF interface Defines the interface to use to reach the destination. You can obtain a list of
interfaces using the Route Print command. The Route utility lets you define interfaces using
decimal or hexadecimal values. Precede the number with 0x when working with a hexadecimal
number. When you don??™t provide this command line switch, the utility relies on the gateway
information to determine the interface.
METRIC metric Defines the cost of using a particular route. When the system needs to transfer
information, it begins with the lowest cost route and moves to the next higher cost route as
needed (for example, when an error occurs). The metric value is in the range from 1 to 9,999.
There aren??™t any absolute metric values. Generally, you determine the metric value in relation
to other routes on the system and by considering the number of hops, speed of the path, path
reliability, path throughput, and administrative properties.
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