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Hi,
I wonder if anyone has ever set up a static route on their 7800N successfully? I currently have a test subnet that can route out to the internet via my 7800N but I can't access/ping, etc it from my main subnet. (The test subnet hangs off one of my Ethernet ports to another router) I think this is due to the default gateway on my 7800N pointing to the ADSL port, I have tried adding a static route into the router to point any traffic for the test subnet to my second router but I keep getting an error.
I enter the destination/prefix length in the format of 192.192.192.192/24 for example, the gateway as the external port of my second router and the interface as "Lan/Br0". Once I have done this I get the following message: "static route add error" and "config failed". It did work once but I hadn't entered the correct ip so I deleted it and now I can't enter anything.
Any help or ideas would be fantastic, I'm out of ideas.

Thanks

Hi spaceman1999

Here more information I got a while back from our engineers.

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1.Choose the IP Ver. in drop down menu, Such as: IPv4 or IPv6

2.Enter the destination IP where the traffic packets is to be forwarded.

Prefix Length = Mask Length/Netmask

Example for IPv4:

Destination forwarded to Network Segment 10.10.10.0 with Netmask 255.255.255.0 , So you must input the value 10.10.10.0/24
The address: 10.10.10.0 with Netmask 255.255.255.0 means that the subnet is a range of IP addresses from 10.10.10.0 - 10.10.10.255.


Example for IPv6:

The prefix length for an IPv6 subnet will always be /64 , So we take sample that destination forwarded to Network Segment 2001:db812 . So you must input the value 2001:db812::/64



3.Enter the Gateway Address for the traffic in your Network environment

Example for IPv4: 192.168.1.1

Example for IPv6: fe80::ab232:aac0



4.Choose the Interface for the new routing rule from the drop down menu, Such as: LAN/br0 or ADSL/ppp

I hope this helps

Brilliant, Thanks

After following your instructions it is now working.

I was making the mistake of inputing a particular nodes IP as the destination, not the subnet address.

Many thanks