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

7520 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

7720 Series

Fabric Engine 8.10

VSP 4900 Series

VOSS 8.1

VSP 7400 Series

VOSS 8.0

Static routes for the management OOB and management VLAN must use the Segmented Management Instance. For more information, see VOSS User Guide. The management CLIP can use the Segmented Management Instance or routes in the associated VRF routing table manager (RTM).

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.