What is Palo Alto Virtual Router?

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When it comes to routing traffic between different networks one needs a router. Palo Alto Networks Firewalls are capable of routing the traffic between networks. Palo Alto uses a concept of “Virtual Routers” to route the traffic be it static routing or dynamic routing. Virtual Router uses virtualized or partitioned routing tables to do the routing job. Palo Alto Firewalls uses virtual routers to obtain the routes and uses best route to populates its routing table.

Palo Alto Networks Firewall is capable of supporting Dynamic routing protocols like RIP v2, OSPF ( OSPF v2 and V3) and BGP v4. The Palo Alto Network Firewalls comes with a Virtual router named default which can be used for routing provided the layer 3 interfaces or VLANs are part of that default Virtual router. One can also create a new Virtual Router and name it according to his/her organization standards and use it for both static routing and dynamic routing.

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