Static routes

Table 1. Static routing product support

Feature

Product

Release introduced

Static routing

5320 Series

Fabric Engine 8.6

Only 5320-48P-8XE and 5320-48T-8XE support more than one VRF with IP configuration.

5420 Series

VOSS 8.4

5520 Series

VOSS 8.2.5

5720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.7

A static route is a route to a destination IP address that you manually create.

Create static routes to enhance network stability. Use the local next hop option to configure a static route with or without local next hop.

You can configure static routes with a next hop that is not directly connected, but that hop must be reachable. Otherwise, the static route is not enabled.

Layer 3 redundancy supports only address resolution protocol (ARP) and static route. Static ARP must configure the nonlocal next-hop of static routes. No other dynamic routing protocols provide nonlocal next-hop.

Note

Note

Static ARP entries are not supported for NLB Unicast or NLB Multicast operations.

You can use a default static route to specify a route to all networks for which no explicit routes exist in the forwarding information base or the routing table. This route has a prefix length of zero (RFC1812). You can configure the switch with a route through the IP static routing table.

To create a default static route, you must configure the destination address and subnet mask to 0.0.0.0.

Note

Note

Do not configure static routes on a DvR Leaf node unless the configuration is for reachability to a management network using a brouter port.

Also, configuring the preference of static routes is not supported on a Leaf node.