
Networking
Configuring the Optional WAN
Cisco SA 500 Series Security Appliances Administration Guide
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NOTE
If you want to configure load balancing, make sure that you configure
both WAN ports with the Connectivity Type set to Keep Connection.
If the WAN is configured to time out after a specified period of
inactivity, then load balancing is not applicable.
•
Failure Detection:
Enable this feature to allow the security appliance to
detect the failure of a WAN link. You can specify the detection method. In
the event of a failure, traffic for the unavailable link is diverted to the
available link.
NOTE
Before you perform this procedure, you must configure the optional WAN
connection. See
Configuring the Optional WAN, page 62
.
STEP 1
Click
Networking
on the menu bar, and then click
Optional Port > WAN Mode
in
the navigation tree.
—OR—From the Getting Started (Advanced) page, under
Secondary WAN Port
,
click
Configure WAN Mode
.
The WAN Mode page appears.
STEP 2
In the
Port Mode
area, choose one of the following modes:
•
Auto-Rollover using WAN port:
Choose this option If you have two ISP
links and you want to use one link as a backup. From the drop-down list,
choose the WAN port that you want to designate as the primary link:
Dedicated WAN
or
Optional WAN
.
When Auto Failover mode is enabled, the link status of the primary WAN port
is checked at regular intervals as defined by the failure detection settings.
•
Load Balancing:
Choose this option if you have two ISP links that you want
to use simultaneously. After you complete this procedure by clicking the
Apply
button, you need to configure the protocol bindings. See
Configuring
the Protocol Bindings for Load Balancing, page 68
.