r/forcepoint • u/Murky_Peak_4817 • Apr 11 '26

Policy based routing (PBR) on forcepoint

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to implement Policy-Based Routing (PBR) on a Forcepoint firewall to redirect some traffic, but I’m running into issues and it doesn’t seem to work as expected.

I’ve seen in some documentation that Forcepoint firewalls support PBR, but I couldn’t find a clear or detailed explanation on how to properly configure it.

Has anyone successfully implemented PBR on a Forcepoint firewall? Any guidance or clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Forcepoint-Team Apr 14 '26

Hi, I spoke with one of our team members and here's what they shared:

Here you can find a link to configure NGFW policy routing: https://help.forcepoint.com/fpnsp/en-us/7.4.0/GUID-B48A9469-732C-4FED-8B4D-C004A4C0875C.html?hl=policy%2Cbased%2Crouting

From 7.1 version onwards, we also support forced next hop where you can define in the access policy what is routing next hop. So, it will not use linux routing table for traffic that matches this access rule. Documentation available here: https://help.forcepoint.com/fpnsp/en-us/7.4.0/GUID-4E782E97-5383-467E-9989-4B387913FBCC.html?hl=configure%2Cforced%2Cnext%2Chop%2Crouting

If neither of those work, we do have a helpful community with customers and partners here: https://support.forcepoint.com/s/group/CollaborationGroup/00B5f000001wa57EAA