ZyXEL Communications P-661H Series - Manual (Page 161)

P-661H/HW Series User’s Guide
Chapter 9 Firewall Configuration 161
As a result, the ZyXEL Device resets the connection, as the connection has not been
acknowledged.
Figure 84 “Triangle Route” Problem
9.5.2 Solving the “Triangle Route” Problem
You can have the ZyXEL Device allow triangle route sessions. However this can allow traffic
from the WAN to go directly to a LAN computer without passing through the ZyXEL Device
and its firewall protection.
Another way to solve the triangle route problem is to use IP alias. IP alias allows you to
partition your network into logical sections over the same Ethernet interface. Your ZyXEL
Device supports up to three logical LAN interfaces with the ZyXEL Device being the gateway
for each logical network. By putting your LAN and Gateway A in different subnets, all
returning network traffic must pass through the ZyXEL Device to your LAN. The following
steps describe such a scenario.
1 A computer on the LAN initiates a connection by sending a SYN packet to a receiving
server on the WAN.
2 The ZyXEL Device reroutes the packet to Gateway A, which is in Subnet 2.
3 The reply from the WAN goes to the ZyXEL Device.
4 The ZyXEL Device then sends it to the computer on the LAN in Subnet 1.
Figure 85 IP Alias