Can someone please shed some light on why "discard" is used to inject a
static route? I thought it meant: "ignore this static route".
Thanks.
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Propagate Static Routes into Routing Protocols
A common way to propagate static routes into the various routing
protocols is to configure the routes so that the next-hop router is the
loopback address (commonly, 127.0.0.1). Doing this with the JUNOS
software (by including a statement such as route address/mask-length
next-hop 127.0.0.1 ) does not propagate the static routes, because the
forwarding table ignores static routes whose next-hop router is the
loopback address. To propagate static routes into the routing protocols,
configure them as follows:
[edit]
user@host# set routing-options static route destination-prefix discard
[edit]
user@host# show routing-options {
static {
route destination-prefix {
discard;
}
}
}
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