ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL5UTM 4.0 User Manual

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

Chapter 38 Route Setup

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

Figure 297   Menu 6.3: Route Failover

Menu 6.3 - Route Failover

Period= 5
Timeout=: 3
Fail Tolerance= 3

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 205   Menu 6.3: Route Failover

Period

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.

Timeout 

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.

Fail Tolerance

Type the number of times your ZyWALL may attempt and fail to connect to the 

Internet before traffic is forwarded to the backup gateway.

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.

Metric

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 

) The smaller the number, the higher 

priority the route has.

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.

Table 204   Menu 6.2: Traffic Redirect