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ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual Setting Up Auto-Rollover Mode If you want to use a redundant ISP link for backup purposes, ensure that the backup WAN port has already been configured. Then you select the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this mode and configure the WAN Failure Detection Method to support Auto-Rollover. When the VPN firewall is configured in Auto-Rollover mode, the VPN firewall uses the WAN Failure Detection Method to check the connection of the primary link at regular intervals to detect its status. Link failure is detected in one of the following ways: • By using DNS queries to a DNS server, or • By a Ping to an IP address. For each WAN interface, DNS queries or Ping requests are sent to the specified IP address. If replies are not received, the corresponding WAN interface is considered down. To configure the dual WAN ports for Auto-Rollover 1. Select Network Configuration from the primary menu and WAN Mode from the secondary menu. The WAN Mode screen will display. 2. In the Port Mode section, check the Auto-Rollover Using WAN port radio box. 3. Selection the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this mode from the pull-down menu. 4. From the WAN Failure detection Method section, select the detection failure method radio box from one of the following choices: • DNS lookup using configured DNS Servers (ISP DNS Servers). In this case, DNS queries are sent to the DNS server configured on the WAN ISP screens (see "Configuring the Internet Connections to Your ISPs" on page 2-2). • DNS lookup using this DNS Server (for example, a public DNS Server). Enter any public DNS server. DNS queries are sent to this server through the WAN interface being monitored. • Ping to this IP address. Enter a public IP address that will not reject the ping request or will not consider the traffic abuse. Queries are sent to this server through the WAN interface being monitored. Connecting the VPN Firewall to the Internet 2-9 v1.0, January 2010

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ProSafe VPN Firewall 200 FVX538 Reference Manual
Connecting the VPN Firewall to the Internet
2-9
v1.0, January 2010
Setting Up Auto-Rollover Mode
If you want to use a redundant ISP link for backup purposes, ensure that the backup WAN port has
already been configured. Then you select the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this
mode and configure the
WAN Failure Detection Method
to support Auto-Rollover.
When the VPN firewall is configured in Auto-Rollover mode, the VPN firewall uses the
WAN
Failure Detection Method
to check the connection of the primary link at regular intervals to
detect its status. Link failure is detected in one of the following ways:
By using DNS queries to a DNS server, or
By a Ping to an IP address.
For each WAN interface, DNS queries or Ping requests are sent to the specified IP address. If
replies are not received, the corresponding WAN interface is considered down.
To configure the dual WAN ports for Auto-Rollover
1.
Select
Network Configuration
from the primary menu and
WAN Mode
from the secondary
menu. The WAN Mode screen will display.
2.
In the
Port Mode
section, check the
Auto-Rollover Using WAN port
radio box.
3.
Selection the WAN port that will act as the primary link for this mode from the pull-down
menu.
4.
From the
WAN Failure detection Method
section, select the detection failure method radio
box from one of the following choices:
DNS lookup using configured DNS Servers (ISP DNS Servers)
. In this case, DNS
queries are sent to the DNS server configured on the WAN ISP screens (see
“Configuring
the Internet Connections to Your ISPs” on page 2-2
).
DNS lookup using this DNS Server
(for example, a public DNS Server). Enter any
public DNS server. DNS queries are sent to this server through the WAN interface being
monitored.
Ping to this IP address
. Enter a public IP address that will not reject the ping request or
will not consider the traffic abuse. Queries are sent to this server through the WAN
interface being monitored.