BinTec RS353j User Manual page 243

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Field
The menu Advanced Settings consists of the following fields:
Fields in the Advanced Settings menu.
Field
Route Selector
Tracking IP Address
Description
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Description
The Route Selector parameter is an additional criterion to help
define a load balancing group more precisely. Here, routing in-
formation is added to the "interface" entry within a load balan-
cing group. The route selector is required in certain scenarios to
enable the IP sessions managed by the router to be balanced
uniquely for each load balancing group. The following rules ap-
ply when using the parameter:
• If an interface is only assigned to one load balancing group, it
is not necessary to configure the route selector.
• If an interface is assigned to multiple load balancing groups,
configuration of the route selector is essential.
• The route selector must be configured identically for all inter-
face entries within a load balancing group.
Select the Destination IP Address of the desired route.
You can choose between all routes and all extended routes.
You can use the Tracking IP Address parameter to have a
particular route monitored.
The load balancing status of the interface and the status of the
routes connected to the interface can be influenced using this
parameter. This means that routes can be enabled or disabled
irrespective of the interface's operation status. The connection
is monitored using the gateway's host surveillance function
here. Host surveillance entries must be configured in order to
use this function. These can be configured in the Local Ser-
vices->Surveillance->Hosts menu. Here, it is important that
only the host surveillance entries with the the action Surveil-
lance are taken into account in the context of load balancing.
Links between the load balancing function and the host surveil-
lance function are made through the configuration of the Track-
ing IP Address in the Load Balancing->Load Balancing
Groups->Advanced Settings menu. The interface's load bal-
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