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Description

This article describes the best practice to deploy routing to set communication between networks.

Scope FortiGate.
Solution

Before setting a route to establish communication between networks, consider the administrative distance.

 

Default Distance per route type:

 

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The first tiebreaker for duplicate routes will be the lower distance, it will be the higher preference, which is set by the administrator except for connected & IS-IS routes and it will help for the convergence of the network.

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