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The Routes tab displays the contents of the system routing table and can be used to delete routes. From this window, you can delete any route, whether it is static or a dynamically learned route from RIP or OSPF. Therefore, you should exercise care when deleting entries from the route table.
To view the Routes tab:
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From the Device Manager menu bar, choose IP Routing > IP > Routes. |
| The Routes tab opens. |
Figure 13 :  Route tab -- IP
Dest
The destination IP network of this route. An entry with a value of 0.0.0.0 is considered a default route. Multiple routes to a single destination can appear in the table, but access to such multiple entries is dependent on the table access mechanisms defined by the network management protocol in use.
Mask
Indicate the network mask to be logically ANDed with the destination address before being compared to the value in the ipRouteDest field.
Interface
The router interface for this route.
NextHop
The IP address of the next hop of this route.
Type
The type of route:
Note that the values direct and indirect refer to the notion of direct and indirect routing in the IP architecture.
Proto
The routing mechanism through which this route was learned:
Age
The number of seconds since this route was last updated or otherwise determined to be correct.
HopOrMetric
The primary routing metric for this route. The semantics of this metric are specific to different routing protocols.