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If you check the Idle Reset checkbox, a match on this rule will keep the WAN connection alive by resetting the idle-timeout status.

The Idle Reset setting is used to determine if a packet which matches the filter will cause an “instant-on” link to connect, if it is down; or reset its idle timer, if it is already up. For example, if you wanted ping traffic not to keep the link up, you would create a filter which forwards a ping, but with the Idle Reset checkbox unchecked.

Example: You want packets with the TOS low latency bit to go through VC 2 (via gateway 127.0.0.3 – the Netopia Gateway will use 127.0.0.x, where x is the WAN port + 1) instead of your normal gateway.

You would set up the filter as shown here.

☛NOTE:

Default Forwarding Filter

If you create one or more filters that have a matching action of forward, then action on a packet matching none of the filters is to block any traffic.

Therefore, if the behavior you want is to force the routing of a certain type of packet and pass all others through the normal routing mechanism, you must

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