Configuring The Online Detection - TP-Link TL-R470T Plus Configuration Manual

Configuring Transmission
5.3

Configuring the Online Detection

With Online Detection function, you can detect the online status of the WAN port.
Choose the menu Transmission> Load Balancing > Online Detection and click
the following page.
Figure 5-3 Configuring the Online Detection
Configure the following parameters on this page and click OK.
Port
Mode
Ping
DNS Lookup
Displays the name of WAN Port.
Select the online detection mode.
Auto: In Auto Mode, the DNS server of the WAN port will be selected as the destination
for DNS Lookup to detect whether the WAN is online.
Manual: In Manual Mode, you can configure the destination IP address for PING and
DNS Lookup manually to detect whether the WAN is online.
Always Online: In Always Online Mode, the status of the port will always be online.
With "Manual Mode" selected, specify the destination IP for Ping. The correspoding
port will ping the IP address to detect whether the WAN port is online. 0.0.0.0 means
Ping detection is disabled.
With "Manual Mode" selected, specify the IP address of DNS server. The correspoding
port will perform the DNS lookup using default domain name to detect whether the
WAN port is online. 0.0.0.0 means DNS Lookup is disabled.
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