What is difference between Staitc Route and Policy Route

[noktualek]

I See this function on Fortigate 60C Wan1 ppoe adsl Wan2 Static IP From lead line Someone may explain what difference between static route and policy route thanks for your help.

[Maik]

between static route and policy route

i try to help you figuring it out by yourself: 1) what is the match criteria of a static route? 2) what are the match criterias of a policy route?

[noktualek]

I want internet from Internal Interface go out side Wan1 and Wan2 Wan1 is ppoe setup Wan2 Static IP setup Should I config only Policy Route or Both Static Route Policy Route Thanks for your help.

[ShrewLWD]

Hi Nok, Policy routes are mostly used to redirect portions or subsets of an existing subnet to another location. From your limited information, it appears you are looking to do either Failover, load balancing, or traffic-specific redirection (e.g. HTTP - WAN1, FTP -WAN2). Regardless, Static is what you want. Program both, then make use of Distance (and firewall policies) to direct the traffic. If you are looking for Fail-over, the distances must be different (e.g. 1 for WAN1, 10 for WAN2). If you are looking to do load-balancing, or traffic-specific, keep them the same. Be sure to apply firewall policies correctly. NOTE: PPPoE has it' s Distance applied to the interface itself, and is default set at 5. It will ignore any distance you put in to the Static Route statements.