Prestige 324 Intelligent Broadband Sharing Gateway

9.5.2 Traffic Redirect Setup

Configure parameters that determine when the Prestige will forward WAN traffic to the backup gateway

using Menu 11.6 — Traffic Redirect Setup.

Menu 11.6 - Traffic Redirect Setup

Active= Yes

Configuration:

Backup Gateway IP Address= 0.0.0.0

Metric= 15

Check WAN IP Address= 0.0.0.0

Fail Tolerance= 2

Period (sec)= 5

Timeout (sec)= 3

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Press Space Bar to Toggle.

Figure 9-10 Menu 11.6 — Traffic Redirect SetupTable 9-6 Traffic Redirect Setup

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

Active

Press [SPACE BAR] and select Yes (to enable) or No (to disable) traffic

Yes

 

redirect setup. The default is No.

 

 

When the Active field is Yes, you must configure every field in this screen

 

 

unless you are using PPPoE or PPTP encapsulation (except Check WAN

 

 

IP Address and Timeout).

 

 

If you don’t configure these fields and are using PPTP or PPPoE

 

 

encapsulation, then the Prestige checks the PPPoE channel or PPTP

 

 

tunnel to determine if the WAN connection is down.

 

 

 

 

Configuration:

 

 

Backup

Enter the IP address of your backup gateway in dotted decimal notation.

0.0.0.0

Gateway IP

The Prestige automatically forwards traffic to this IP address if the

 

Address

 

Prestige’s Internet connection terminates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metric

Enter a number from 1 to 15 to set this route’s priority among the

15

 

Prestige’s routes (see Route Priority and Metric on page 9-11) The

(default)

 

smaller the number, the higher priority the route has.

 

 

 

 

Remote Node Setup

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