Cisco CCNA Tutorial: Advanced Static Routing on Cisco Router

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I was thinking maybe static routing on cisco routers is very basic and most of us knows this very well, hence, I made this next post as part 2. This advance static routing requires rigid evaluation of the diagram. This complex network setup is composed of 5 routers with 11 networks. I divided the ccna video tutorial into three parts. The first involves pc host addressing and router interface addressing. On the second and third video tutorials, the static routing was presented. You can follow and apply what is on the video by downloading the packet tracer laboratory practice found at the bottom of the video section.

The basic format for adding a static route on a Cisco router are as follows

Configure a static route to a network, pointing to a next-hop router’s IP address

Router(config)# ip route <network id> <subnet mask> <next hop>

Define a static route with reference to the outgoing interface which is connected to the next hop towards the destination network.

Router(config)# ip route <network id> <subnet mask> <outgoing interface>

Network Diagram

CCNA Video Tutorial Part 1: Client Host and Cisco Router’s Interface IP Addressing

CCNA Video Tutorial Part 2: Advance Static Routing on Cisco Routers

CCNA Video Tutorial Part 3: Finalize and Test with ICMP

Download packet tracer practice lab – packet tracer practice

Command Summary: Advance Static Routing Configuration

R1 IP Route Configuration

ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.12 255.255.255.252 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.0.8 255.255.255.252 Serial2/0

R2 IP Route Configuration

ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.6.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.0.16 255.255.255.252 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.252 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0

R3 IP Route Configuration

ip route 192.168.6.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.0.16 255.255.255.252 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 Serial3/0
ip route 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.252 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.0.12 255.255.255.252 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0
ip route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 Serial2/0

R4 IP Route Configuration

ip route 192.168.6.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.16 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.8 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0

R5 IP Route Configuration

ip route 192.168.6.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.4 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.12 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.8 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.252 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0
ip route 192.168.4.0 255.255.255.0 FastEthernet0/0

Static routing is very simple yet time consuming. When routing with numerous networks, I suggest you do dynamic routing.