Which statement describes FortiGate behavior when you reference a zone in a static route?

When a zone is specified as the outgoing interface in a static route configuration, FortiGate creates and installs a distinct static route in the routing table for each interface that is a member of that zone. All these generated routes will share the same destination, administrative distance, and priority. If these parameters are identical, FortiGate can then use them for Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) load balancing across all member interfaces of the zone.

A: This is incorrect because FortiGate installs routes for all members of the zone, not just the first two.

B: This is incorrect because FortiGate actively creates and uses the static routes for the zone members; it does not ignore them.

C: This describes the behavior of SD-WAN rules, which use performance SLAs to select a path. A standard static route does not perform this function.

FortiOS 7.4.0 Administration Guide

Page 911

Section: "Static routes". The guide states: "When an interface zone is selected as the outgoing interface

a static route is created for each member interface in the zone."

FortiOS 7.4.0 Networking Guide

Page 218

Section: "Zones". The guide explains that a zone is a group of interfaces

and when used in policies or routes

it applies to all member interfaces. This implies that a route pointing to a zone will resolve to routes for its individual members.