ZyXEL Communications 5 Series User Manual

Chapter 24 Policy Route Screens

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

Click ADVANCED > POLICY ROUTE to open the Policy Route Summary screen. Then 
click

 

the edit icon to open the Edit IP Policy Route screen. WAN 2 refers to either the 

physical WAN 2 port on the ZyWALL with multiple WAN ports or the 3G card on the 
supported ZyWALL in router mode. Not all fields are available on all models. 

Use this screen to configure a policy route to override the default (shortest path) routing 
behavior and forward packets based on the criteria you specify. A policy route defines the 
matching criteria and the action to take when a packet meets the criteria. The action is taken 
only when all the criteria are met. Policy-based routing is applied to incoming packets on a per 
interface basis before normal routing. The ZyWALL does not perform normal routing on 
packets that match any of the policy routes.

Gateway 

Enter the IP address of the gateway. The gateway is a router or switch on the same 
network segment as the device's LAN or WAN port. The gateway helps forward 
packets to their destinations.

Protocol

This is the IP protocol and can be ALL(0), ICMP(1), IGMP(2), TCP(6), UDP(17), 
GRE(47), ESP(50) or AH(51).

Action

This field specifies whether action should be taken on criteria Matched or Not 
Matched.

Modify

Click the edit icon to go to the screen where you can edit the routing policy on the 
ZyWALL.
Click the delete icon to remove an existing routing policy from the ZyWALL. A 
window display asking you to confirm that you want to delete the routing policy. 

Move

Type a policy route's index number and the number for where you want to put that 
rule. Click Move to move the rule to the number that you typed.
The ordering of your rules is important as they are applied in order of their 
numbering.

Table 137   ADVANCED > POLICY ROUTE > Policy Route Summary