Static routes in the forwarding table (FIB) are not synchronised between HA peers in Active/Passive HA setup with Passive link state "Auto"

• As seen below, the FIB (Forwarding Table) of the passive HA node, has less number of routes which exclude the static routes and show only the dynamic protocol routes.
• The full  Forwarding and Routing table tables of the Active and Passive HA nodes showing static/dynamic routes  not shown here for brevity.

• Active HA node :

(active)> show routing fib

total virtual-router shown :              1

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virtual-router name: default
interfaces:

<interface list>

route table:
flags: u - up, h - host, g - gateway, e - ecmp, * - preferred path

maximum of fib entries for device:                 65536
maximum of IPv4 fib entries for device:            32768
maximum of IPv6 fib entries for device:            32768
number of fib entries for device:                  945
maximum of fib entries for this fib:               65536
number of fib entries for this fib:                945  <<<<<<<<<
number of fib entries shown:                       945

• Passive HA node  :

(passive)> show routing fib

total virtual-router shown : 1 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
virtual-router name: default 
interfaces:            

<interface list>


route table:
flags: u - up, h - host, g - gateway, e - ecmp, * - preferred path

maximum of fib entries for device:                 65536
maximum of IPv4 fib entries for device:            32768
maximum of IPv6 fib entries for device:            32768
number of fib entries for device:                  220
maximum of fib entries for this fib:               65536
number of fib entries for this fib:                220  <<<<<<<<<<<
number of fib entries shown:                       220

• The static routes are not synchronised because of the current design in Active-Passive HA state with "Passive link state" set to "Auto".
• If the Routing and Forwarding table are reviewed, it can found that the forwarding table does not contain the static routes and only contains the dynamically learnt routes (OSPF, BGP,RIP etc).

• The static routes are not synchronised from Active to Passive HA nodes when the Passive link state is set to "Auto".
• The static routes are synchronised only when the Passive link state is set to "Shutdown".
• This is expected behaviour as per current design.