ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual
If your ISP has allocated many IP addresses to you, and you have assigned one of these addresses to each PC, you can choose Classical Routing. Or, you can use Classical Routing for routing private IP addresses within a campus environment. Otherwise, selecting this method will not allow Internet access through this Router.
To learn the status of the WAN ports, you can view the Router Status page (see “Viewing Router Configuration and System Status” on page
Setting Up Auto-Rollover Mode
If you want to use a redundant ISP link for backup purposes, ensure that the backup WAN port has already been configured. Then you select the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this mode and configure the WAN Failure Detection Method to support
When the router is configured in
•By using DNS queries to a DNS server, or
•By a Ping to an IP address.
For each WAN interface, DNS queries or Ping requests are sent to the specified IP address. If replies are not received, the corresponding WAN interface is considered down.
To configure the dual WAN ports for
1.Select Network Configuration from the primary menu and WAN Mode from the secondary menu. The WAN Mode screen will display.
2.In the Port Mode section, check the
3.Selection the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this mode from the
4.From the WAN Failure detection Method section, select the detection failure method radio box from one of the following choices:
•DNS lookup using configured DNS Servers (ISP DNS Servers) – In this case, DNS queries are sent to the DNS server configured on the WAN ISP pages (see “Configuring the Internet Connections to Your ISPs” on page
•DNS lookup using this DNS Server (for example, a public DNS Server) – Enter any public DNS server. DNS queries are sent to this server through the WAN interface being monitored.
Connecting the FVX538 to the Internet |
v1.0, August 2006
