Static routes

Table 1. Static routing product support
Feature	Product	Release introduced
For configuration details, see VOSS User Guide.
Static routing	5520 Series	VOSS 8.2.5
	VSP 4450 Series	VSP 4000 4.0
	VSP 4900 Series	VOSS 8.1
	VSP 7200 Series	VOSS 4.2.1
	VSP 7400 Series	VOSS 8.0
	VSP 8200 Series	VSP 8200 4.0
	VSP 8400 Series	VOSS 4.2
	VSP 8600 Series	VSP 8600 4.5
	XA1400 Series	VOSS 8.0.50

Note

VSP 8600 Series uses the Layer 3 configuration for management static routes as well as for packet forwarding. For all other platforms, management static routes must use Segmented Management.

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

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

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.