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Resulting interface configuration
When you finish set-up in Traffic Policy Wizard, the resulting configuration can be viewed
under Configuration →Interfaces and edited if desirable.
Figure6.15 Configurationof interfaces — network traffic load balancing
The Internet interfaces group includes the Internet 4Mbit and the Internet 8Mbit link selected
as an interface for Internet traffic load balancing on the third page of the wizard.
The Internet column shows proposed speed of individual links (see above). The Status column
informs of the current status of the link (up/down) as well as of the fact whether the link is
active, i.e. whether connection on this Internet link is working and part of Internet traffic can
be routed through it.
Other interfaces (including Dial-In) are considered as segments of the LAN and put in Trusted /
Local interfaces.
For any new link added to the Internet interfaces group, the default speed of 1 Mbit/s will be
set. Then it is possible and also recommended to edit the proposed link speed in the interface
settings (see chapter 5) with respect to its real speed, which makes the balancing efficient and
working smoothly.
Hint
Speed of one or more links can be set even for 0 Mbit/s. Such links will then not be used for
network traffic load balancing, but for traffic routing in accordance with specific traffic rules
(see chapter 7.5). However, availability of these links will still be tested and the links will serve
as alternative for case that all the other links fail.