Just as we saw modifying the caching time for ARP entries in the ARP table here. We can modify the default time that a sun Solaris system can hold the routing entries.

The default time for which a dynamically learnt Route entry in the routing table is 20mins (1200000ms)

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IP packet forwarding is the process of routing packets between network interfaces on one system. A packet arriving on one network interface and addressed to a host on a different network is forwarded to the appropriate interface. While this is a job for the network router, Servers with multiple interfaces connected to different network can perform this action as well. This behaviour as a router is a default in Sun Solaris Operating Systems.

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