Brian Dennis wrote a long post about the unexpected side effects of the ip default-network command. The Cisco documentation describes the “side effects” but in an even more obscure manner.
What's really happening is this:
- If the parameter of the ip default-network command is a major network, it specifies the default route (how it gets inserted into the routing protocol you're using is a completely different story).
- If the parameter is a subnet of a major network, it specifies the default subnet for the network.
In any case, it's an obscure leftover from the classful days that should probably never be used today outside of a CCIE lab.
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