Motorola 6161252-00-01 manual Backup Default Gateway, Backup Configuration screen

8-14 Administrator’s Handbook

•Select Use Connection Profile, and press Return. A screen displays all of your Connection Profiles. Select the one you want to apply this scheduled connection to and press Return. Your selection becomes effective.

Now, if your primary WAN link fails, the backup link will become active and remain active until the primary link recovers.

Backup Default Gateway

If your Motorola Netopia® equipment does not have an internal modem, or if you do not want to use the internal modem for backup, the Motorola Netopia® Embedded Software Version 8.7.4 offers backup functionality to an alternate gateway typically connected to a LAN port.

A typical application would be to have a LAN connection from your ENT Enterprise-Series Router to another gateway that has, for example, an ISDN or analog modem connection to the Internet, and designating the second gateway as the backup gateway. Should the primary WAN connection fail, traffic would be automatically redirected through your alternate gateway device to maintain Internet connectivity.

Two menus control the backup gateway feature:

•the Backup Configuration screen in the WAN Configuration menu Here, you enable the backup feature and set some parameters.

•the IP Setup screen in the System Configuration menu Here, you set the IP address of the alternate gateway device.

Backup Configuration screen

To enable the backup feature, from the Main Menu select WAN Configuration, Advanced Connection Options, and then Backup Configuration.

Main

Menu

WAN

Configuration

Advanced

Connection Options

Backup

Configuration

The Backup Configuration screen appears.