Establishing a default NIM route between networks from the command line

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Follow this procedure to establish default NIM routes between networks from the command line.

To create a default NIM route for a network, enter: 
nim -o change -a routingseq_no='default Gateway' NetworkObject

where default is the reserved keyword used by NIM to indicate a default route, and Gateway is the host name (or IP address) of the interface that clients on NetworkObject use to contact other networks in the NIM environment.

For example, to establish default NIM routes for Network1 and Network3, enter: 
nim -o change -a routing1='default gw1_tok' Network1
nim -o change -a routing1='default gw1_fddi' Network3

where gw1_tok is the host name of the default gateway for machines on Network1, and gw1_fddi is the host name of the default gateway for machines on Network3.

The detailed information for the network objects now shows the added default routes. To display the detailed information for the two networks, enter: 
lsnim -l Network1 Network3
which produces output similar to the following: 
Network1:
        class            = networks
        type             = tok
        net_addr         = 9.101.1.0
        snm              = 255.255.255.0
        Nstate           = ready for use
        prev_state       = ready for use
        routing1         = default gw1_tok

Network3:
        class            = networks
        type             = fddi
        net_addr         = 9.101.3.0
        snm              = 255.255.255.0
        Nstate           = ready for use
        prev_state       = information is missing from this
                           object's definition
        routing1         = default gw1_fddi