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Policy Forwarding

12.1 Overview

Traditionally, routing is based on the destination address only and the P-870HN- 51D takes the shortest path to forward a packet. Policy forwarding allows the P- 870HN-51D 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.

12.1.1 What You Can Do in this Chapter

The Policy Forwarding screens let you view and configure routing policies on the P-870HN-51D (Section 12.2 on page 163).

12.2 The Static Route Screen

Click Advanced > Policy Forwarding to open the Policy Forwarding screen.

Figure 84 Advanced > Policy Forwarding

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