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Static route

Meaning in networking & telecommunications, with examples

nounCommon term

In networking & telecommunications, static route means: A route that an engineer enters into a router by hand, telling it exactly where to send traffic for a particular network, instead of letting a routing protocol learn it.

In Turkish: statik rota, statik yönlendirme

How it is used

Engineers add, remove and redistribute static routes. They are simple and predictable, so small sites often use only a static default route pointing to the ISP. Their weakness is that they don't adapt automatically when a link fails.

Example sentences

  1. Add a static route to 10.50.0.0/16 via the VPN firewall.

  2. Someone left an old static route in place, so traffic kept going to the closed office.

Common collocations

  • add a static route
  • static default route
  • floating static route
  • remove a static route
  • routingThe process of choosing the path that traffic takes from one network to another, carried out by routers using routes that are either entered by hand or learned from other routers.
  • routing tableA list stored in a router or host that shows which networks it knows about and where to send packets for each one, such as the next router or an outgoing interface.
  • default gatewayThe router address that a device sends traffic to when the destination is outside its own subnet; without it, a device can only talk to its local network.
  • OSPFShort for Open Shortest Path First: a routing protocol used inside one organisation's network, where routers share information about their links and each one calculates the best path itself.
  • routerA device that connects different networks and decides, packet by packet, the best path for data to reach its destination, usually based on IP addresses.

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