Configuring the Default Gateway

Detailed Steps

To configure an IP route, follow these steps:

  1. Select Switches > Interfaces > Management, and select IP in the Physical Attributes pane.
  2. Click the Route tab in the information pane.

    3. You see the IP route window showing the switch name, destination, mask, gateway, metric, interface, and active status of each IP route.

  3. Click the Create Row icon to add a new IP route.
  4. Complete the fields in this window.
    • Enter the switch name in the Switch field.
    • Configure a static route, by entering the destination network ID and subnet mask in the Routedest and Mask fields.
    • Configure a default gateway by entering the IP address of the seed switch in the Gateway field.
    • Set the Metric and Interface fields.

    Note     With Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1) and later, CPP interfaces also are available for selection when you create a new IP route.

  5. Click the Create icon.

To configure an IP route or identify the default gateway using Device Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Choose IP > Routes.

    2. You see the IP Routes window.

  2. Create a new IP route or identify the default gateway on a switch by clicking Create.
  3. Complete the fields in this window.
    • Enter the switch name in the Switch field.
    • Configure a static route, by entering the destination network ID and subnet mask in the Routedest and Mask fields.
    • Configure a default gateway by entering the IP address of the seed switch in the Gateway field.
  4. Set the Metric and Interface fields.

    5. Note     With Cisco NX-OS Release 4.2(1) and later, CPP interfaces also are available for selection when you create a new IP route.

    If you choose the CPP interface, the switch uses the input CPP-assigned IP address and mask to generate the IP route prefix.

  5. Click Create to add the IP route.

Note     You cannot delete the switch-generated IP route for the CPP interface. If you try to delete the IP route for the CPP interface, SNMP displays this error message:
ip: route type not supported.


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