Default Route in Router

How to Configure Default Route in Router on Packet Tracer?

Today we will learn that how to configure default route on Cisco router. Default route is a setting on a computer that defines the packet forwarding rule to use when no specific route can be determined for a given Internet Protocol (IP) destination address. All the IP datagrams with unknown destination address are sent to the default route.

Please see video to configure Default Route on Packet Tracer.

Please follow below steps to configure Default route in Router on Packet Tracer.

Default route in Router

Router1>en

Router1#config t

Router1(config)#int fa 0/0

Router1(config-if)#ip add 10.0.0.1 255.0.0.0

Router1(config-if)#no sh

Router1(config-if)#int fa 0/1

Router1(config-if)#ip add 1.0.0.1 255.0.0.0

Router1(config-if)#no sh

Router1(config-if)#exit

Router1(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.2

Router1(config)#do wr

Router2>en

Router2#config t

Router2(config)#int fa 0/0

Router2(config-if)#ip add 10.0.0.2 255.0.0.0

Router2(config-if)#no sh

Router2(config-if)#int fa 0/1

Router2(config-if)#ip add 2.0.0.1 255.0.0.0

Router2(config-if)#no sh

Router2(config-if)#exit

Router2(config)#ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1

Router2(config)#do wr