Routing on the ASA
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.
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. Static routing can become challenging as the network grows and more routers are added. With static routing, each network would require a manual entry into the routing table (static route) of the device, whether it's a Router or the ASA.
Let's begin setting up a static route on...