We configured our routers with administrative commands and we are able to manage them if we are on the same subnet. We have connectivity within our subnet, and routers can talk with their directly connected neighbors. But the point to networking is to be able to talk to devices beyond our own LAN; businesses would not be able to function if they did not have connectivity across the world.
I have already given you a glimpse of how important routing is, as we used default routes and static routes to build the routing table. But now we are going to discuss the three types of routing in more detail, which are the following:
- Static routing
- Default routing
- Dynamic routing
Don't think you only have to use one or the other; you can combine all three to make a very robust, redundant and dependable network.
