In the previous chapter, we mentioned one of the features of the ASA is its capability to do routing. The ASA supports multiple routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). In this section, we are going to take a look at how to configure both static and dynamic routing protocols on the ASA.
Routing on the ASA
Static routing
Static routing is the manual configuration on either the router or the ASA. The administrator/network engineer would need to create a route on the ASA to tell the device how to forward traffic destined for a particular network. Without any routes, the device won't know how to forward packets...