Prestige 2602HW Series User’s Guide

•routing the packet to a different gateway (and hence the outgoing interface).

•setting the TOS and precedence fields in the IP header.

IPPR follows the existing packet filtering facility of RAS in style and in implementation. The policies are divided into sets, where related policies are grouped together. A user defines the policies before applying them to an interface or a remote node, in the same fashion as the filters. There are 12 policy sets with six policies in each set.

40.4 IP Routing Policy Setup

Menu 25 shows all the policies defined.

Figure 245 Menu 25 IP Routing Policy Setup

 

Menu 25 - IP Routing Policy Setup

Policy

Name

Policy

Name

Set #

Set #

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1

_______________

7

_______________

2

_______________

8

_______________

3

_______________

9

_______________

4

_______________

10

_______________

5

_______________

11

_______________

6

_______________

12

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Enter Policy Set Number to Configure= 0

Edit Name= N/A

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

To setup a routing policy, perform the following procedures:

1Type 25 in the main menu to open Menu 25 – IP Routing Policy Setup.

2Type the index of the policy set you want to configure to open Menu 25.1 – IP Routing Policy Setup.

Menu 25.1 shows the summary of a policy set, including the criteria and the action of a single policy, and whether a policy is active or not. Each policy contains two lines. The former part is the criteria of the incoming packet and the latter is the action. Between these two parts, separator “” means the action is taken on criteria matched and separator “=” means the action is taken on criteria not matched.

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Chapter 40 IP Policy Routing