limit for adding static route?

[Mustafa Gulercan]

is there a limit while adding static route?

[Sandman!]

What do you mean by "limit"? Are you referring to the size of the routing table? Could you clarify what you are trying to get at.

[rick jones]

I cannot recall a coded limit to the number of static route entries one can add, at least apart from something fundamental like the maximum number of possible destination IPs given an IPv4 address being 32 bits and such...

Just how many static routes do you wish to add to the system? 100's? 1000s? 10s of thousands?

[mavrick]

Hi,

first thing u can have multiple static routes
depends on your router on whcih you are connecting. This is purely depends on your
network design ...

[Mustafa Gulercan]

i would like to add 1000's static route,to the routing table.

And i wonder that is there a limit for routing table while adding static route.

regards

[rick jones]

So, what is it that has you wanting to add 1000's of static routes?

[Sandman!]

Adding thousands of static routes is not advisable and may cause performance issues. Proper subnetting/supernetting should result in routing table shrinkage and staying at a manageable size instead of having to populate it with 1000's of routes.

~hope it helps

[mavrick]

Hi Mustafa,

The static routes of 1000s is not advisable.
You may better plan with dynamic routing options. Otherwise definitely it will be a network bottleneck for your system..

If you can elaborate the scenario it will be more clear..

Thanks.

[Mustafa Gulercan]

above comments show that theoretically there is no limit for adding static route.But it is not recommended adding 1000s of static route.

regards,
mustafa

[Lokylook]

there are limitations.
up to 16 static routesâ including one default routeâ in IP networks
thees are for example on Layer 2 Switches.
On Layer 3 , you should take dynamic IP routing