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E SERIES | USER MANUAL VERSION 2.2.0
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Destination port
Enter the Destination Port number.
Protocol
Select the protocols on which the rule is
applicable.
Policy assigned
Policy to be applied to the rule.
Currently
Configured
Policies
Policy already applied to the rule.
Table 11.2-10: Edit Rule details of MWAN Interface
Concept of MWAN
Since E series have multiple sources of Internet, one or more sources of Internet
could be used at the same time. Using one source of Internet and failing over to
another one by defining priorities is called Failover. Once the source with a
higher priority is online, the same will be used as a primary source of internet
Priority can be defined by setting the Metric. Lower the metric, higher the
priority.
When to failover and when to rollback is dependent on which interfaces are
online and which ones are offline. Online and offline interface status is based on
the PING responses to a particular server at a particular time interval. You can
speed up the failover by sending PING packets in a short interval and you can
add reliability by adding multiple server candidates.
Load Balancing is where two or more sources of Internet are used at the same
time and the load which is essentially the connections is split between the
multiple interfaces in the ratio of their weights assigned.
E Series boasts of a feature called WAN affinity where a particular source IP,
Destination IP or a data type can be bound to a particular interface. For this, you
need to set rules and apply the rules to a particular policy. However you need to
first have appropriate members which correspond to physical interfaces in a
particular policy.
So in a nutshell
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Members correspond to individual interfaces where you can set metric and
weight
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Policy consists of a member or group of members
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Rules are to be applied to a policy
