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Policy Forwarding

11.1 Overview

Traditionally, routing is based on the destination address only and the ZyXEL Device takes the shortest path to forward a packet. Policy forwarding allows the ZyXEL Device to override the default routing behavior and alter the packet forwarding based on the policy defined by the network administrator. Policy-based routing is applied to outgoing packets, prior to the normal routing.

You can use source-based policy forwarding to direct traffic from different users through different connections or distribute traffic among multiple paths for load sharing.

11.2 The Policy Forwarding Screen

The Policy Forwarding screens let you view and configure routing policies on the ZyXEL Device. Click Network Settings > Routing > Policy Forwarding to open the Policy Forwarding screen.

Figure 61 Network Settings > Routing > Policy Forwarding

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 40 Network Settings > Routing > Policy Forwarding

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Add new

Click this to create a new policy forwarding rule.

Policy Forward

 

Rule

 

#This is the index number of the entry.

Policy Name This is the name of the rule.

 

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