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Table 204 Menu 6.2: Traffic Redirect
FIELD
Metric
When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt "Press ENTER to Confirm..." to
save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.

38.4 Route Failover

This menu allows you to configure how the ZyWALL uses the route assessment ping check
function.

Figure 297 Menu 6.3: Route Failover

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 205 Menu 6.3: Route Failover

FIELD
Period
Timeout
Fail Tolerance
When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt "Press ENTER to Confirm..." to
save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.
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DESCRIPTION
This field sets this route's priority among the routes the ZyWALL uses.
Enter a number from 1 to 15 to set this route's priority among the ZyWALL's
routes (see Section 7.5 on page
priority the route has.
Menu 6.3 - Route Failover
Period= 5
Timeout=: 3
Fail Tolerance= 3
Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:
DESCRIPTION
Type the number of seconds for the ZyWALL to wait between checks to see if it
can connect to the WAN IP address (in the Check Point field of menu 6.1) or the
default gateway. Allow more time if your destination IP address handles lots of
traffic.
Type the number of seconds for your ZyWALL to wait for a ping response from the
IP address in the Check Point field of menu 6.1 before it times out. The WAN
connection is considered "down" after the ZyWALL times out the number of times
specified in the Fail Tolerance field. Use a higher value in this field if your network
is busy or congested.
Type the number of times your ZyWALL may attempt and fail to connect to the
Internet before traffic is forwarded to the backup gateway.
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