The route monitor observes the connections to the networks of different providers and establishes a backup connection in case of failure. The monitoring makes use of a trigger prefix, which providers supply in their routing protocol, for example with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). As soon as a route to a provider's network becomes unavailable, the route monitor declares the relevant trigger prefix to be invalid for its network and opens a backup connection to the provider's network.
In LANconfig, the route monitor is configured under .
Activate the check box Route monitor active. Now click the button Route monitor table.
Add a new entry to the table and enable the Active check box to enable this backup connection.
Set the following parameters:
- Remote site
- Contains the name of the backup remote station.
- Prefix
- Contains the prefix (IPv4 or IPv6 address) to be observed by the route monitor.
- Routing-Tag
- Contains the routing tag of the prefix being monitored.
- Up delay
- Should the prefix fail to arrive, the device waits for this delay in seconds before it connects to the backup peer.
- Down delay
- Once the prefix arrives, the device waits for the delay in seconds specified here before it disconnects from the backup peer.
- Comment
- Contains a comment on this entry.