Troubleshooting Static Routes
Followers of the assorted American political scandals of the past 30 or so years will have heard a congressional investigator ask the question, “What did he know and when did he know it?” The same question serves an internetworking investigator well. When troubleshooting routing problems, the first step should almost always be to examine the route table. What does the router know? Does the router know how to reach the destination in question? Is the information in the route table accurate? Knowing how to trace a route is essential to successfully troubleshooting an internetwork.
Case Study: Tracing a Failed Route
Figure 3.13 shows a previously configured internetwork, with each router's associated static routes. ...
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