About Router Settings
As part of a network policy that applies to multiple devices, you can configure the
following router settings:
- Network
Allocation - You can add or import subnetwork allocations, and
allocate VLANs to subnetwork spaces defining management, internal, and guest
networks. When ExtremeCloud IQ uploads the network policy to routers with these
VLANs assigned to their Ethernet ports, it also assigns the subnetwork space to
those ports.
- Router
Templates - A router template is a diagram of the physical ports for
a specific Extreme Networks router model and allows you to assign port types to
the device ports, which defines how the ports assigned to it will function.
- VPN
Service - Layer 3 IPsec VPN tunnels securely send traffic between
Extreme Networks routers and one or two Extreme Networks VGVAs (VPN Gateway
Virtual Appliances). ExtremeCloud IQ applies Layer 3 IPsec VPNs to routers and
Layer 3 VPN gateways through a network policy that supports routing.
- SD-WAN
- Enable SD-WAN to configure policies that make routing decisions based on Layer
7 application service sets, user profiles, incoming LAN interfaces, or source
and destination addresses. An SD-WAN route group is a list of prioritized WAN
ports that you can use as a forwarding action in a routing policy.
- Routing
Policy - Policy-based routing enables you to assign route priorities
to traffic based on various factors, including Layer 7 application service sets,
user profiles, incoming LAN interfaces, and source and destination addresses.
There are three general configurations for policy-based routing: split tunnel,
tunnel all, and custom. When routing is enabled in the network policy and SD-WAN
is disabled, you can use any of these routing policy types. When both routing
and SD-WAN are enabled, you can only define custom routing rules.
- URL
Filtering - Some routers support HTTP URL filtering rules, which
define URL filtering by whitelist, blacklist, and category, and can be assigned
to one or more user profiles.
- Firewall - A network firewall policy is a set of up to 2048 rules
that a router uses to permit or deny traffic to and from the networks it
controls. For more information, see Configure a Router Firewall Policy.
- Dynamic
DNS - The DNS translates human-friendly domain names into IP
addresses. You can supply external DNS server IP addresses or use Extreme
Networks routers to provide proxy DNS services for every local network under
their control.
- WAN
Tracking - You can configure one or two WAN tracking destination IP
addresses in a network policy so that routers can send probe packets to the
destination IPs to check WAN availability.