Creating a Default Route in Cisco

A default route is created to instruct your Layer 3 device(Routers,Multilayer Switches) to forward all traffic to a network that is not found in the routing table to a specific address or use a particular interface to send it.

To create a default route in Cisco routers using a Next Hop Address use the Following steps

1 go into global config mode

2 enter the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.10.2

this tells the router to send any traffic to an unknown destination to a next hop of 172.16.10.2

To create a default route in Cisco routers using exit interface use the following steps

1 go into global config mode

2 enter the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 s0/0

this tells the router to send any traffic to an unknown destination send it out through interface serial 0/0