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P-335 Series User’s Guide
Chapter 27 Remote Node Configuration 313
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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:
Menu 11.6: Traffic Redirect Setup
The following table describes the fields in this screen.
Table 112 Menu 11.6: Traffic Redirect Setup
FIELD DESCRIPTION
Active Press [SPACE BAR] and select Yes (to enable) or No (to disable) traffic redirect
setup. The default is No.
Configuration:
Backup
Gateway IP
Address
Enter the IP address of your backup gateway in dotted decimal notation.
The Prestige automatically forwards traffic to this IP address if the Prestige’s Internet
connection terminates.
Metric Enter a number from 1 to 15 to set this route’s priority among the Prestige’s routes
(see the Metric section in the WAN and Dial Backup Setup chapter) The smaller the
number, the higher priority the route has.
Check WAN IP
Address
Enter the IP address of a reliable nearby computer (for example, your ISP’s DNS
server address) to test your Prestige’s WAN accessibility.
The Prestige uses the default gateway IP address if you do not enter an IP address
here.
If you are using PPTP or PPPoE Encapsulation, enter “0.0.0.0” to configure the
Prestige to check the PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuit) or PPTP tunnel.
Fail Tolerance Enter the number of times your Prestige may attempt and fail to connect to the
Internet before traffic is forwarded to the backup gateway. Two to five is usually a
good number.
Period (sec) Enter the time interval (in seconds) between WAN connection checks. Five to 60 is
usually a good number.
Timeout (sec) Enter the number of seconds the Prestige waits for a ping response from the IP
Address in the Check WAN IP Address field before it times out. The number in this
field should be less than the number in the Period field. Three to 50 is usually a good
number.
The WAN connection is considered “down” after the Prestige times out the number of
times specified in the Fail Tolerance field.
When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press [ENTER] to confirm or
[ESC] to cancel” to save your configuration or press [ESC] to cancel and go back to the previous screen