Static routing
Static routing is one of the foundations of firewall configuration. It is a form of routing in which a device uses manually-configured routes. In the most basic setup, a firewall will have a default route to its gateway to provide network access. In a more complex setup with dynamic routing, ADVPN, or SD-WAN involved, you would still likely find static routes being deployed.
This section explores concepts in using static routing and provides examples in common use cases:
The following topics include additional information about static routes:
- Deploying the Security Fabric
- Security Fabric over IPsec VPN
- Viewing and controlling network risks via topology view
- Adding a static route
- NAT mode
- NAT and transparent mode
- IPsec VPN in an HA environment
- IPsec VPN to Azure with virtual network gateway
- FortiGate as dialup client
- ADVPN with BGP as the routing protocol
- ADVPN with OSPF as the routing protocol
- ADVPN with RIP as the routing protocol
- Basic site-to-site VPN with pre-shared key
- Site-to-site VPN with digital certificate
- Site-to-site VPN with overlapping subnets
- Tunneled Internet browsing
- FortiGate multiple connector support
- IPsec aggregate for redundancy and traffic load-balancing
- Use MAC addresses in SD-WAN rules and policy routes
- Using BGP tags with SD-WAN rules