You have been asked to define a default gateway for traffic leaving a router. This route should use interface so-0/0/0 as its next-hop. Which type of route would be suited for this scenario?
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A. B. C. D.A
The correct answer for this scenario is option A, a static route.
A default gateway is the IP address of the router that traffic from a network device is sent to when the device is trying to communicate with a device on another network. When the router receives the traffic, it forwards it to the destination network.
To define a default gateway, a static route is typically used. A static route is a manually configured route that remains constant, as opposed to a dynamic route, which is learned from a routing protocol.
In this scenario, the next-hop for the default gateway is the interface so-0/0/0. A static route can be created with the destination network as 0.0.0.0/0, which indicates that all traffic should use this route as the default gateway. The next-hop for this static route can be set to the IP address of interface so-0/0/0.
Generated routes are routes that are created dynamically by the router based on a specific configuration, and are typically used in scenarios such as load balancing or traffic engineering.
Martian routes are routes that are either invalid or undesirable for use in a network, and are usually filtered or discarded by routing protocols.
An aggregate route is a summary route that combines multiple subnets into a single route, which can be useful for reducing the size of routing tables and improving network performance. However, it is not suitable for defining a default gateway.