Routing
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4.3
Routing Table
The router maintains all the active route entries, and displays them in the Routing table.
The static routes configured manually by the administrator are displayed in
grey
color.
And the dynamic routes learnt via RIP or OSPF are displayed in
yellow
color.
Select
Status
→
Route Table
to view the
Routing Table
as explained below.
Routing Table
Destination IP
address
The destination network reachable through this route.
Subnet Mask
The subnet mask for this route. When there are multiple routes to the
same destination, the route with the longest subnet mask will be given
preference.
Gateway IP address
This is the next hop router’s IP Address to which packets matching this
route will be forwarded.
Interface
This is the interface on which the route is active
4.4
Policy Based Routing
Policy Based Routing (PBR) is an extension of normal routing, which offers network
administrators significant flexibility to implement their own custom policies for making
routing decisions. Typically, Static/Dynamic routing defines routes based on the
destination IP Address of the packet. With PBR, the administrator has more control to
choose a specific path for certain traffic flows based on various criteria, such as
source/destination IP Addresses, Ports and Protocol.
Policy-based routing helps to define custom policies for routing traffic. For example,
policy can be defined to route all HTTP traffic through WAN1 and E-mail traffic through
WAN2. These policies help to achieve efficient traffic distribution. A set of parameters
(e.g. source IP address, destination IP address, inbound interface, protocol,
source/destination ports) are used to identify and direct the traffic out of a specific
outbound interface.
Select
Routing
→
Policy-Based
to configure
Policy Based Routing
as explained below.
Policy Based Routing
Policy Based
Routing
Select Enable to activate Policy based routing in the router.
Web UI
Web UI
