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Yes I believe you need the ip routing command<br />
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It should be at the top of the config:<br />
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no aaa new-model<br />
clock timezone CST -6<br />
clock summer-time CDT recurring<br />
system mtu routing 1500<br />
ip subnet-zero<br />
ip routing<br />
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I believe if you don't have the command there, you won't see anything in your routing table.
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I do not have the &quot;ip routing&quot; line in my config<br />
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When I enter &quot;show ip route&quot; I get a table with 4 static routes and 4 connected routes.<br />
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It seems that entering a static route must enable ip routing without having to enter the &quot;ip routing&quot; command?
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If you see a routing table than routing is enabled. Otherwise it would not show anything.
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In my experience, you could create dynamic route configurations and routing remain disabled. I am not sure about static routes, but maybe your observation is true.
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When I searched through the config I did not see &quot;ip routing&quot; or &quot;router eigrp&quot; or any &quot;network&quot; commands<br />
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what does above mean?<br />
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Unless u enable EIGRP and under it network command u wont c it.<br />
for e.g<br />
router eigrp 10(AS number)<br />
network 10.0.0.0<br />
no-summary<br />
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Unless u enable EIGRP with its L3 neigbour u wont c any EIGRP routes..
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Which router or layer 3 switch are you using?
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This is a 6500 so routing is enabled by default?
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I know that one way is to use the command &quot;ip routing&quot;<br />
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But can you also enable ip routing by justing entering a static route?<br />
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ex: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1<br />
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I ran across this on one of my switches.<br />
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I ran &quot;show ip route&quot; and i got back static and connected routes.<br />
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When I searched through the config I did not see &quot;ip routing&quot; or &quot;router eigrp&quot; or any &quot;network&quot; commands<br />
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I know that one way is to use the command "ip routing"

But can you also enable ip routing by justing entering a static route?

ex: ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1

I ran across this on one of my switches.

I ran "show ip route" and i got back static and connected routes.

When I searched through the config I did not see "ip routing" or "router eigrp" or any "network" commands



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