NETGEAR FVX538NA manual ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual

ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual

•Ping to this IP address – Enter a public IP address that will not reject the Ping request or will not consider the traffic abuse. Queries are sent to this server through the WAN interface being monitored.

5.Enter a Test Period in seconds. DNS query is sent periodically after every test period. The default test period is 30 seconds.

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6.Enter the Maximum Failover amount. The WAN interface is considered down after the configured number of queries have failed to elicit a reply. The rollover link is brought up after this. The Failover default is 4 failures.

The default time to roll over after the primary WAN interface fails is 2 minutes (a 30-secondminimum test period, times a minimum of 4 tests).

7.Click Apply to save your settings.

8.Click Reset to revert to the previous settings.

Once a rollover occurs, an alert will be generated (see “E-Mail Notifications of Event Logs and Alerts” on page 4-31). When notified that the failed WAN interface has been restored, you can force traffic back on the original primary WAN interface by reapplying the Auto-Rollover settings in the WAN Port Mode menu.

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v1.0, August 2006