Policy Forwarding; Chapter 21 Policy Forwarding; Overview; The Policy Forwarding Screen - ZyXEL Communications P-660HN-51 User Manual

21.1 Overview

Traditionally, routing is based on the destination address only and the Zyxel Device takes the shortest
path to forward a packet. Policy forwarding allows the Zyxel Device to override the default routing
behavior and alter the packet forwarding based on the policy defined by the network administrator.
Policy-based routing is applied to outgoing packets, prior to the normal routing.
You can use source-based policy forwarding to direct traffic from different users through different
connections or distribute traffic among multiple paths for load sharing.

21.2 The Policy Forwarding Screen

The Policy Forwarding screens let you view and configure routing policies on the Zyxel Device. Click
Advanced > Policy Forwarding to open the Policy Forwarding screen.
Figure 106 Advanced > Policy Forwarding
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 84 Advanced > Policy Forwarding
LABEL
Add new Policy
Forward Rule
#
Policy Name
Source IP
Source Subnet
Mask
Protocol
SourcePort
Source MAC

Policy Forwarding

DESCRIPTION
Click this to create a new policy forwarding rule.
This is the index number of the entry.
This is the name of the rule.
This is the source IP address.
This is the source subnet mask address.
This is the transport layer protocol.
This is the source port number.
This is the source MAC address.
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