Traffic Redirect

Using Traffic Redirect

What is Traffic Redirect ?
How to deploy backup gateway?
Are you using ZyWALL family?

What is Traffic Redirect ?

Traffic redirect forwards WAN traffic to a backup gateway when Prestige cannot connect to the Internet through it's normal gateway. Thus make your backup gateway as an auxiliary backup of your WAN connection. Once Prestige detects it's WAN connectivity is broken, Prestige will try to forward outgoing traffic to backup gateway that users specify in traffic redirect configuration menu.

How to deploy backup gateway?

You can deploy the backup gateway on the WAN or LAN of Prestige. However, if you would like to deploy the backup gateway on the WAN of Prestige, please make sure that your Prestige has a static WAN IP address at first. Otherwise, we recommend you to deploy the backup gateway on the LAN of Prestige.

Traffic Redirect on WAN port

When Prestige has a dynamic IP address on it's WAN port, it may be easier to connect backup gateway to the LAN of Prestige.

Traffic Redirect on LAN port

Traffic Redirect Setup

You can configure traffic redirect via WEB configuration. The configuration page is in NETWORK->WAN->Traffic Redirect.

Key Settings:

Active	Press [Space BAR] and select Yes (to enable) or No (to disable) traffic redirect setup.
Backup Gateway IP Address	The IP address of your backup gateway. Prestige automatically forwards outgoing traffic to this IP address if Prestige's Internet connection terminates.
Metric	Enter a number from 1 to 15 to give your traffic redirect route a priority number. The smaller the number, the higher priority the route has.

In NETWORK->WAN->Route, check Probing Traffic Redirection Check Point, and choose 'Use Default Gateway as Check point' or specify a public IP address as the Check Point.

Key Settings:

Period	Specify the period that Prestige would check it's WAN connectivity.
Timeout	Specify the seconds that Prestige would wait for a response from the reliable server.
Fail Tolerance	Specify the number of times your Prestige may attempt and fail to connect to Internet before triggering traffic redirect connection.
Probing Traffic Redirection Check Point	Check this option, so ZyWALL would probing the check point periodically.
Use Default Gateway as Check Point	ZyWALL will probe it's default gateway IP address to check it's WAN connectivity periodically.
Check Point	Configure a reliable server on Internet (for example, your ISP's DNS server address) for ZyWALL to to check it's WAN connectivity periodically.

Are you using ZyWALL family?

In case your are using ZyWALL with firewall function turns on, it's strongly recommended that you deploy the backup gateway in IP alias segment. You can refer to here for how to use IP alias in ZyWALL, and firewall FAQ for the reason why we make such suggestion.