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• Local IP Address
This parameter usually does not need to be specified. If it is specified, cOS Core responds to
ARP queries sent to this address. A special section below explains this parameter in more
depth.
Local IP Address and Gateway are mutually exclusive and either one or the other should be
specified.
• Metric
This is a metric value assigned to the route and is used as a weight when performing
comparisons between alternate routes. If two routes are equivalent but have different metric
values then the route with the lowest metric value is taken.
The metric value is also used by Route Failover and Route Load Balancing.
For more information, see Section 4.4, “Route Load Balancing” and Section 4.2.3, “Route
Failover”.
A Typical Routing Scenario
The diagram below illustrates a typical Clavister Security Gateway usage scenario.
Figure 4.1. A Typical Routing Scenario
In the above diagram, the LAN interface is connected to the network 192.168.0.0/24 and the
DMZ interface is connected to the network 10.4.0.0/16. The WAN interface is connected to the
network 195.66.77.0/24 and the address of the ISP gateway to the public Internet is 195.66.77.4.
The associated routing table for this would be as follows:
Chapter 4: Routing
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