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Figure 20: Create New Routing Policy
Give a name to the policy, then click on
to add a new member to the list of members included on the
policy.
If two members have the same metric, then the policy will do load balancing through the interfaces while
taking into account the configured weight on each member to determine how much traffic can be sent
through each interface. Otherwise the member with lower metric will have priority.
Click on
Save
and
Apply
changes to save the policy and it will be displayed along the other policies on the
routers.
Note:
when configuring a new LAN subnet (VLAN) or VPN client, the router will automatically generate a
routing policy in order to allow traffic from the LAN or VPN network to/via the select wan interface. Along
the automatically created routing policy, the GWN7000 router will create the corresponding firewall rule
which will allow for traffic to pass from the LAN subnet to the WAN ports while respecting the created policy,
users can check these rules under the menu
“Firewall
→
Traffic
Rules
→
Forward”.
Using Routing Policies
In order to illustrate how policy-based routing can be used, let’s imagine an SMB who has a GWN7000
router running their network with two WAN (WAN1 and WAN2) ports for normal data traffic and a third WAN
port (NET port used as wan) for VoIP service since this link has QoS support. The administrator wants to
send normal data traffic through WAN 1 and WAN 2 in a load balanced way and the VoIP traffic via WAN 3
traffic.
