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Ballzack
New Member
January 29, 2018
Question

Policy based routing vs SD-WAN Rules

  • January 29, 2018
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Good day.

 

I cannot find any information on this. I would like to know if policy routes take preference over SD-WAN Rules. Your feedback will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

5 replies

FortiKoala
Staff
Staff
January 29, 2018

Since PBR (policy Based Routing) is done prior to static routing,  You can define the PBR to match your traffic and route the packets through the port you want (one you have in the SD-WAN group)

 

There is a discussion on this cookbook page http://cookbook.fortinet....nt-internet-sd-wan-56/

chethan
Explorer II
March 25, 2022

Hi,

 

Have you figured it out?

 

even I'm wondering if SD-WAN rules have more priority than policy routes.

 

Thanks

Sachin_Alex_Cherian_
Staff
Staff
May 26, 2022

Hi,

A PBR configuration has more precedence over an SDWAN rule configuration.

 

seshuganesh
Staff
Staff
May 26, 2022

Hi Team,

 

policy routes >> sd wan rules and then comes routing table(get router info routing-table details)

This is the routing behavior in fortigate firewall

chethan
Explorer II
May 27, 2022
pminarik
Staff
Staff
May 26, 2022

Here's a KB article with a very nice diagram describing the route lookup flow.

And yes, PBR is evaluated before SD-WAN rules.

chethan
Explorer II
May 27, 2022

Thanks for sharing it, @pminarik