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Excerpt: Static routes can be handy in some situations where you want to do some quick and (sometimes) easy routing to get the job done, whether replacing the job that a routing protocol would perform, or redistributing the static route into that protocol. The best way to do this would be to identify the remote subnet being routed to, and specify a next-hop IP address to send traffic to so that it can be reached. The next-hop IP address must be in the routing table, and usually it is, since next-hop IP addresses are commonly in a directly connected subnet, which appear…