Used for creation/deletion of a next hop entry and for monitoring entry status. 1) create the next-hop entry by setting nextHopRowStatus==CreateAndWait At this stage the entry is NotReady 2) set either the nextHopIP or nextHopInterface to change the entry to Active 3) If nextHop is IP Address then nextHopInterface=L3 interface name 4) if nextHop is interface then nextHopIP=0.0.0.0. 5) if nextHop is null0 then nextHopIp=0.0.0.0 and. nextHopInterface=null0 6) to change an entry from IP to INTERFACE to NULL0: ip->interface/null0 : set the nextHopInterface interface->null0 : set the nextHopInterface interface->ip : set the nextHopIP 7) nextHopType is READ-ONLY active(1), notInService(2), notReady(3), createAndGo(4), createAndWait(5), destroy(6)