How do you determine the most specific network route ONTAP 9.2 and later versions will use for network traffic?
Applies to
ONTAP 9.2 and later versions
Description
- How ONTAP chooses a route when it needs to initiate a new request or reply to a request.
- To determine the most specific route(s) to the destination, run the following command from the ONTAP CLI:
set advanced; network route active-entry show -vserver vserver -node node-01
- This will include routes that originate from the LIFs on the node specified
- Alternatively, ROUTE-ACTIVE.XML can be reviewed in the AutoSupport section of ActiveIQ
- From the route matches, determine which has the longest prefix
- For example if the destination ip address is 10.1.1.1 and looking at routing table with the following destinations
- "default" or 0.0.0.0/0 matches and has a 0 bit prefix
- 10.1/16 matches and has a 16 bit prefix
- 10.1.1/24 matches and has a 24 bit prefix
- 10.1.1.1/32 matches and has a 32 bit prefix which is longest prefix (32 is bigger than 24, 16, and 0) making it the most specific route
- For example if the destination ip address is 10.1.1.1 and looking at routing table with the following destinations
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