Static Default Routes
When a router tries to route a packet, the router might not match the packet’s destination IP address with any route. When that happens, the router normally just discards the packet.
Routers can be configured so that they use either a statically configured or dynamically learned default route. The default route matches all packets, so that if a packet does not match any other more specific route in the routing table, the router can at least forward the packet based on the default route.
One classic example in which companies might use static default routes in their enterprise TCP/IP networks is when the company has many remote sites, each with a single, relatively slow WAN connection. Each remote site has only one possible ...
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