Using Address Wildcards; Editing The Properties Sheets For Ar - Avaya P330 User Manual

Chapter 5

Using Address Wildcards

Wildcards are used to mask all or part of a source or destination IP
address. Using wildcards, you can create filters for IP addresses. A
wildcard can also be used to mask specific bits of an IP address. This
mask is used to specify which bits are used and which bits are ignored.
If you specify Host, the wildcard is set to 0.0.0.0, and the entire address
is used. If you specify Any, the wildcard is set to 255.255.255.255, and
the IP address is ignored. You can also specify a custom wildcard to mask
part of the IP address.
Examples:

Editing the Properties Sheets for AR

When you add a new entity for load balancing configuration, the Form
Area displays the Properties Sheet of the new entity. For more
information about using and editing the Properties Sheets, refer to
"Editing the Properties Sheets for FWLB" on page 31.
The following tables list the fields in the various AR Properties Sheets.
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• If the client IP address is 149.36.184.189, and the wildcard is
255.0.255.255 the rule will apply to all packets, where the second
byte of the IP address is 36. The 255 in the first, third, and fourth
bytes allow any value in the corresponding bytes of the source
address to match this rule.
• If the server address is 149.36.184.189, and the wildcard is
255.255.127.0, the rule will only apply to traffic directed to IP
addresses whose third byte is between 128-255, and whose
fourth byte is 189.
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