Does Meraki firewall support floating static routing?

[qin]

Does Meraki firewall support floating static routing? Support policy routing? Who can tell me？

[MerakiJockey505]

The short answer is yes.  Static routes on the MX device require a "next hop."  So through VLAN and subnetting you can essentialy "weight" or "prioritize" traffic routing to another layer 3 device.  As far as policy routing goes you have the ability to control Flow Preferences under Security appliance > Configure >Traffic Shaping > Flow Preferences and define traffic using a designated uplick tagged by Protocol, Source, Src port, Destination, Dst port, and preferred uplink.

[bholmes12]

On the MX you can put in a static route that is active when the next hop responds to pings. You also have the option to manually enter a host IP to ping, the route can then be removed when that host doesnt respond. 

[Techgirl321]

but does the route withdraw itself or do you have to physically remove it?

Neither of these are what I would call solutions for floating static routes.

[PanGer]

Hello There, 

I am still new to Meraki, this will be the first comment from me.

I think the question referred to the original floating static routing feature, meaning to influence the AD of a static route (which is 1 by default). So far I do not find this feature, maybe I am looking at an incorrect place for it? (Security&SD-WAN-->addressing and vlans)

This topic came up for me, when I wanted to configure two default static route, and I wanted to make one of them less preferred, meaning increasing the AD of the less preferred route. But I still want a default static in the routing table, when the preferred next hop becomes unavailable.

I hope it is clear what I would like to achieve here. Maybe any suggestions? Or influencing the routing by modifying the AD is an outdated approach? 😞

Regards

[CptnCrnch]

Are you specifically asking for a floating Default route or something that is pointing into a Prefix within your environment?

This could be accomplished like this:

like described in https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Networks_and_Routing/MX_Routing_Behavior#Overlapping_Routes

[Techgirl321]

Nice. Thanks.  But I'm pretty sure this was not an option 2.5 years ago when I asked the question.  LOL