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Routing — in a nut shell
What you need to know about network routing
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I’ve had to deal with routing on both AWS and in network devices and it was always the thing I missed or always forgot something about it. I’ve explained it before in greater detail here in relation to a “no route to host” problem that has stumped me in the past:
But after setting up some routing recently for the UDM SE I’ve been writing about I wanted to write a simple as possible summary as I can.
Routing sends traffic between networks
Your routing configuration allows your traffic to reach your network and get to another network.
When you want to get traffic from one network to another, a route needs to exist to allow that network to get from one network to…
