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Creating a static route for the SD-WAN interface

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Creating a static route for the SD-WAN interface

After you create an SD-WAN interface, the FortiGate adds a virtual interface for SD-WAN to the interface list. You can create routes using this SD-WAN interface.

You must configure a default route for the SD-WAN interface. You don’t need to configure a gateway address for the default route that uses the SD-WAN interface because the FortiGate forwards packets to the appropriate gateway based on the SD-WAN member interface gateway information.

Create a static route for SD-WAN – GUI
  1. Go to Network > Static Routes.
  2. Select Create New.
  3. In the Destination field, select Subnet and leave the destination IP address and subnet mask as 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0.
  4. In the Interface field, select the SD-WAN interface from the drop-down menu.
  5. Ensure that the Status field is set to Enable.
  6. Select OK.

If you previously removed or redirected existing references in routes to interfaces that you wanted to add as SD-WAN interface members, you can now reconfigure those routes to reference the SD-WAN interface.

Create a static route for SD-WAN – CLI

config router {static | static6}

edit <sequence_number>

set virtual-wan-link enable

next

end

Creating a static route for the SD-WAN interface

After you create an SD-WAN interface, the FortiGate adds a virtual interface for SD-WAN to the interface list. You can create routes using this SD-WAN interface.

You must configure a default route for the SD-WAN interface. You don’t need to configure a gateway address for the default route that uses the SD-WAN interface because the FortiGate forwards packets to the appropriate gateway based on the SD-WAN member interface gateway information.

Create a static route for SD-WAN – GUI
  1. Go to Network > Static Routes.
  2. Select Create New.
  3. In the Destination field, select Subnet and leave the destination IP address and subnet mask as 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0.
  4. In the Interface field, select the SD-WAN interface from the drop-down menu.
  5. Ensure that the Status field is set to Enable.
  6. Select OK.

If you previously removed or redirected existing references in routes to interfaces that you wanted to add as SD-WAN interface members, you can now reconfigure those routes to reference the SD-WAN interface.

Create a static route for SD-WAN – CLI

config router {static | static6}

edit <sequence_number>

set virtual-wan-link enable

next

end