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Motorola Series Switch WS5100 User Manual

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4-6 WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide

3. The read-only

IP Forwarding

tab displays the current status between VLANs. To toggle the status of

routing between VLANs, use the

Enable/Disable

options located at the bottom of the screen.

The following details display in the table:

Destination Subnet

Displays the mask used for destination subnet entries. The Subnet Mask is the IP mask used
to divide internet addresses into blocks (known as subnets). A value of 255.255.255.0 will
support 256 IP addresses.

Subnet Mask

Displays the mask used for destination subnet entries. The Subnet Mask is the IP mask used
to divide internet addresses into blocks (known as subnets). A value of 255.255.255.0 will
support 256 IP addresses.

Gateway Address

Displays the IP address of the Gateway used to route the packets to the specified destination
subnet. Do not set the gateway address to any VLAN interface used by the switch.

Interface

Displays the interface name with which the destination subnet entries are attached.

Protocol

Displays the name of the routing protocol with which this route was obtained. Possible
values are:

• Static — Routes are statically added by the operator.

• DHCP — Routes obtained from the DHCP server.

• Connected — Routes automatically installed by the switch for directly connected

networks based on interface IP addresses.

• Kernel/ ICMP — Routes added as a result of receiving an ICMP redirect from an

intermediate router.