I'm hoping some clarification can provided to me on the difference between default network and gateway of last resort and when you would use one instead of the other.
Eg. ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x - gateway of last resort. Eg. ip default-network x.x.x.x
This one says to follow the x.x.x.x network as a default. And hope that someone along the line will know how to route. It also requires that one (sub)network in the x.x.x.x be present for it to works.
So if you do "ip default-network 172.16.0.0" and your routing table has
172.16.1.0 /24 via 172.16.1.1
Then it will use 172.16.1.1 as the default next hop
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 x.x.x.x = if there is no better route for that destination, I'll send it to x.x.x.x ip default-network x.x.x.x= anyone in network x.x.x.x, if you don't have better route send it to me.
I also know that ip default-network x.x.x.x applies to network which has RIP as a routing protocol
I would just like to add that x.x.x.x in 'ip defaut-network x.x.x.x' has to be major network (classfull one) to work as Hansang did in his example but did not explicitly said that.
Hm.. this post does not make sense to me anymore :-).
Yes, it will create a static route but not really to null. It still won't set "Gateway of last resort..." as you can see in following example:
r1#sh ip ro [snip]
Gateway of last resort is not set
1.0.0.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 1.1.1.0 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0 172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets S 172.16.12.0 [1/0] via 1.1.1.2 r1# r1# r1# r1#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. r1(config)#ip default-network 172.16.12.0 r1(config)#exit r1# Mar 12 03:25:15.405: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console r1#sh ip ro [snip]
Gateway of last resort is not set
1.0.0.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 1.1.1.0 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0 172.16.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks S 172.16.12.0/24 [1/0] via 1.1.1.2 S 172.16.0.0/16 [1/0] via 172.16.12.0 r1# r1# r1#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. r1(config)#ip default-network 172.16.0.0 r1(config)#exit r1#sh Mar 12 03:25:31.305: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console r1# r1#sh ip ro [snip]
Gateway of last resort is 172.16.12.0 to network 172.16.0.0
1.0.0.0/30 is subnetted, 1 subnets C 1.1.1.0 is directly connected, FastEthernet0/0 * 172.16.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks S 172.16.12.0/24 [1/0] via 1.1.1.2 S* 172.16.0.0/16 [1/0] via 172.16.12.0 r1# r1# r1#sh ver Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C1700 Software (C1700-SY7-M), Version 12.3(13), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)
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