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AER3100/AER3150
WAN AFFINITY
WAN Affinity rules allow you to manage traffic in
your network so that particular bandwidth uses
are associated with particular WAN sources. This
allows you to prioritize bandwidth.
EXAMPLE
: You could specify that your guest LAN
is only associated with your Ethernet connection
with no failover. Then if your Ethernet connection
goes down and the embedded modem connects for failover for your primary LAN, your guest LAN will not take
bandwidth from your primary LAN, saving you money.
Click
Add
to open the WAN Affinity Policy Editor and create a new WAN Affinity rule.
Name
: Give a name for your rule that is
meaningful to you.
DSCP (DiffServ)
: Differentiated Services Code
Point is the successor to TOS (Type of Service).
Use this field to select traffic based on the DSCP
header in each IP packet. This field is sometimes
set by latency sensitive equipment such as VoIP
phones. If you know specific DSCP values, you
can input one here.
DSCP Negate
: When checked this rule will match
on any packet that does NOT match the DSCP
field.
Protocol
: Select from the dropdown list to
specify the protocol for a particular data use.
Otherwise, leave “Any” selected.
•
Any
•
ICMP
•
TCP
•
UDP
•
GRE
•
ESP
•
SCTP
Source IP Address
,
Source Netmask
,
Destination IP Address
, and
Destination Netmask
: Specify an IP address
or range of IP addresses by combining an IP address with a netmask for either “source” or “destination” (or
both). Source vs. destination is defined by traffic flow. Leave these blank to include all IP addresses (such as if
your rule is defined by a particular port instead).
EXAMPLE
: If you want to associate this rule with your guest LAN, you could input the IP address and netmask
for the guest LAN here (leaving the last slot “0” to allow for any user attached to the guest network):
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Source IP Address:
192.168.10.0
•
Source Netmask:
255.255.255.0
Failover
: (Default: Selected.) When this is selected and traffic from the chosen WAN device for this rule is
interrupted, the router will fail over to another available WAN device. Deselect this option to restrict this
traffic to only the selected WAN interface.
