Hi, I am trying to setup the scenario where I am tracking an IP in the MPLS network for a specific route reachable via that MPLS network. That way I can be quite granular in what routes go via the MPLS network and which would failover to an IPSEC tunnel to the DC. I'm doing this on the Meraki Live demo site with an MX100. When I add the static route entry with 'while host responds to ping' for an IP in the MPLS network i get the error message... "There were errors in saving this configuration: Host IP must be inside the static route's subnet." It seems I can only use an IP in the attached subnet for the next hop? That doesn't seem to be of much use. The LAN interface of the MPLS router will be up and responding to pings even when its WAN interfaces are down or blackholing traffic so my static route would never be removed from the routing table and the MX100 would never use the IPSEC path to the DC. The only scenario that would failover is if the MPLS router fails completly. Its much more likely for the circuit to fail so I need to cover that eventuality somehow. Any ideas or thoughts? Thanks RTS UPDATE - 5 mins after posting - I was misunderstanding the error message. the host IP to ping must be in the destination subnet, not next hop subnet so it seems ok. I'm guessing the logic is that if this IP in the destination subnet is not reachable via this next hop then don't use this static route which makes sense. I wanted to use a transit subnet near to the destination but this works in any case. Thanks if you read this far as I'm working through my design!
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