• SonicOS 7 Rules and Policies
• Access Rules
  • Setting Firewall Access Rules
    • About Stateful Packet Inspection Default Access Rules
    • About Connection Limiting
    • Using Bandwidth Management with Access Rules
      • Enabling Bandwidth Management on an Access Rule
    • Configuring Access Rules
      • Configuring Access Rules for IPv6
      • Configuring Access Rules for NAT64
      • Access Rules for DNS Proxy
      • User Priority for Access Rules
      • Displaying Access Rules
        • By Zones
        • By Column
      • Configuring Access Rules for a Zone
    • Enabling and Disabling Access Rules
    • Editing Access Rules
    • Deleting Access Rules
    • Restoring Access Rules to Default Settings
    • Displaying Access Rule Traffic Statistics
  • Access Rule Configuration Examples
    • Enabling Ping
    • Blocking LAN Access for Specific Services
    • Allowing WAN Primary IP Access from the LAN Zone
• NAT Rules
  • About NAT in SonicOS
  • About NAT Load Balancing
    • Determining the NAT LB Method to Use
    • Caveats
    • How Load Balancing Algorithms are Applied
    • Sticky IP Algorithm Examples
      • Example One - Mapping to a Network
      • Example Two - Mapping to an IP Address Range
  • About NAT64
    • Use of Pref64::/n
  • About FQDN-based NAT
  • About Source MAC Address Override
  • Viewing NAT Policy Entries
    • Changing the Display
    • Filtering the Display
    • Displaying Information about Policies
  • Adding or Editing NAT or NAT64 Policies
  • Deleting NAT Policies
  • Creating NAT Rule Policies: Examples
    • Creating a One-to-One NAT Policy for Inbound Traffic
    • Creating a One-to-One NAT Policy for Outbound Traffic
    • Inbound Port Address Translation via One-to-One NAT Policy
    • Inbound Port Address Translation via WAN IP Address
    • Creating a Many-to-One NAT Policy
    • Creating a Many-to-Many NAT Policy
    • Creating a One-to-Many NAT Load Balancing Policy
    • Creating a NAT Load Balancing Policy for Two Web Servers
    • Creating a WAN-to-WAN Access Rule for a NAT64 Policy
    • DNS Doctoring
• Routing Rules
  • About Routing
    • About Metrics and Administrative Distance
      • About Metrics
      • About Administrative Distance
    • Route Advertisement
    • ECMP Routing
    • Policy-based Routing
    • Policy-based TOS Routing
    • PBR Metric-based Priority
    • Policy-based Routing and IPv6
    • OSPF and RIP Advanced Routing Services
      • About Routing Services
        • Protocol Type
        • Maximum Hops
        • Split-Horizon
        • Poison Reverse
        • Routing Table Updates
        • Subnet Sizes Supported
        • Autonomous System Topologies
      • OSPF Terms
    • Drop Tunnel Interface
    • App-based Routing
  • Rules and Policies > Routing Rules
    • Configuring Routing Rules
      • Adding Static Routes
      • Probe-Enabled Policy-based Routing Configuration
• Content Filter Rules
  • About Content Filtering Rules (CFS)
    • About Content Filter Rules
    • About UUIDs for CFS Policies
    • About Content Filter Objects
    • How CFS Works
  • Configuring CFS Policies
    • About the Content Filter Rule Table
      • Searching the Content Filter Rule Table
    • Adding a Content Filter Rule
    • Editing a Content Filter Rule
    • Deleting Content Filter Rules
• App Rules
  • About App Rules
    • What are App Rules?
      • About App Rules Policies
      • About App Rules Capabilities
    • Benefits of App Rules
    • How Does Application Control Work?
    • About App Rules Policy Creation
    • Licensing App Rules and App Control
    • Terminology
  • Rules and Policies > App Rules
    • Configuring an App Rules Policy
    • Using the App Rule Wizard
  • Verifying App Rules Configuration
    • Useful Tools
      • Wireshark
      • Hex Editor
  • App Rules Use Cases
    • Creating a Regular Expression in a Match Object
    • Policy-based Application Rules
    • Logging Application Signature-based Policies
    • Compliance Enforcement
    • Server Protection
    • Hosted Email Environments
    • Email Control
    • Web Browser Control
    • HTTP Post Control
    • Forbidden File Type Control
    • ActiveX Control
    • FTP Control
      • Blocking Outbound Proprietary Files Over FTP
      • Blocking Outbound UTF-8 / UTF-16 Encoded Files
      • Blocking FTP Commands
    • Bandwidth Management
    • Bypass DPI
    • Custom Signature
    • Reverse Shell Exploit Prevention
      • Generating the Network Activity
      • Capturing and Exporting the Payload to a Text File Using Wireshark
      • Creating a Match Object
      • Defining the Policy
• Endpoint Rules
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Adding Static Routes

To add a static route

1. Navigate to the POLICY | Rules and Policies > Routing Rules page.

   

2. Click +Add (in the bottom left corner). The Adding Rule dialog displays.

   

3. In the Lookup view, enter a friendly name for this route policy in Name.
4. Type any rule Tags that might aid in a Search criteria. You can use up to three separated by commas.
5. Type a descriptive comment into the Description field.
6. Indicate the Type as IPv4 or IPv6.
7. Select the source address object from Source.
8. Select the destination address object from Destination.
9. Specify the type of service object that is routed from Service.
10. Click Add or click to the Next Hop view to continue the configuration.

11. Choose the type of route:

    • Standard Route (default)
    • Multi-Path Route
    • SD-WAN Route
12. Select the interface through which these packets are routed from Interface.
13. Select the address object that acts as a gateway for packets matching these settings from Gateway.
14. Specify the RIP metric in the Metric field.
15. Click Add or click to the Advanced view to continue the configuration.
16. Optionally select Disable route when the interface is disconnected.
17. Select Allow VPN path to take precedence to allow a matching VPN network to take precedence over the static route when the VPN tunnel is up. This option is not selected by default.
18. Enter the ToS hexadecimal value in the TOS (Hex) field.
19. Enter the ToS Mask hexadecimal value in the TOS Mask (Hex) field.
20. Enter a value for the Admin Distance, or select Auto for an automatically created Admin Distance.
21. Click Add or click to the Probe view to continue the configuration.
22. Select a probe type from Probe. The default is None. If a probe type is selected additional options become available.
23. Select Disable route when probe succeeds. This option is not selected by default.
24. Select Probe default state is UP.
25. When you are finished, click Add. The route settings are configured for the selected SonicWall appliance(s).