D-Link DRO-210i manual Routing Table, Policy Based Routing

Routing

4.3 Routing Table

The router maintains all the active route entries, and displays them in the Routing table. The static routes configured manually by the administrator are displayed in grey color. And the dynamic routes learnt via RIP are displayed in yellow color.

Select Status → Route Table to view the Routing Table as explained below.

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Routing Table

Destination IP	The destination network reachable through this route.
address
Subnet Mask	The subnet mask for this route. When there are multiple routes to the
	same destination, the route with the longest subnet mask will be given
	preference.
Gateway IP address	This is the next hop router’s IP Address to which packets matching this
	route will be forwarded.
Interface	This is the interface on which the route is active

4.4 Policy Based Routing

Policy Based Routing (PBR) is an extension of normal routing, which offers network administrators significant flexibility to implement their own custom policies for making routing decisions. Typically, Static/Dynamic routing defines routes based on the destination IP Address of the packet. With PBR, the administrator has more control to choose a specific path for certain traffic flows based on various criteria, such as source/destination IP Addresses, Ports and Protocol.

Policy-based routing helps to define custom policies for routing traffic. For example, policy can be defined to route all HTTP traffic through WAN1 and E-mail traffic through WAN2. These policies help to achieve efficient traffic distribution. A set of parameters (e.g. source IP address, destination IP address, inbound interface, protocol, source/destination ports) are used to identify and direct the traffic out of a specific outbound interface.

Select Routing → Policy-Based to configure Policy Based Routing as explained below.

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Policy Based Routing

Policy Based	Select Enable to activate Policy based routing in the router.
Routing

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