TABLE OF CONTENTS Any device that routes traffic to other networks must have knowledge of where the networks are, and what path it should use to get the traffic to the destination. Of course, there are a couple of ways to go about spreading this knowledge to different devices on the network. One of the most common ways of setting up this functionality is to use static routing. Essentially, static routing allows you to manually define the path that a router should send traffic on to get to a destination. This is opposed to dynamic routing where routers exchange information about networks which they know how to reach in an effort to automatically propagate this information. In a network where there might only be one path out of the network, it might make more sense to use static routing, which can be much simpler to implement with less overhead on the network. In this section, we will cover how static routes are configured on the firewall, followed by examples to reinforce the concepts.
Many people familiar with static routing just think of it as a way to route traffic to a destination network. Traditionally, static routes are used to provide the device with routing knowledge for destination hosts, networks, or even act as a catchall default route. Static routes are thus placed into the routing table, and it s as simple as that. They also have some additional uses that the Juniper firewalls allow you to...
