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Figure 351 Menu 11.1.5: Traffic Redirect Setup

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Menu 11.1.5 - Traffic Redirect Setup

Active= Yes

Configuration:

Backup Gateway IP Address= 0.0.0.0

Metric= 14

Check WAN IP Address= 0.0.0.0

Fail Tolerance= 10

Period(sec)= 300

Timeout(sec)= 8

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Table 228 Menu 11.1.5: 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 ZyWALL automatically forwards traffic to this IP address if the ZyWALL's
Internet connection terminates.

Metric

This field sets this route's priority among the routes the ZyWALL uses.

Enter a number from 1 to 15 to set this route's priority among the ZyWALL's
routes (see

Section 8.5 on page 151

) 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 ZyWALL's WAN accessibility.

The ZyWALL 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 ZyWALL to check the PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuit) or PPTP tunnel.

Fail Tolerance

Enter the number of times your ZyWALL 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 ZyWALL 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 ZyWALL 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…" to
save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.