Wanguard 6.2 User Guide
Appendix 4 – Network Integration Guideline for Wanguard Filter
Understanding the Traffic Forwarding Methods
This section provides details on the available traffic forwarding methods. A traffic forwarding method must
be used to re-inject cleaned traffic from the
Filter
system back to network in order to reach its destination.
Couple of options can be identified depending on the existing network setup and which device may have the
role of
Divert-from
,
Inject-to
, and
Next-hop
router:
1.
Layer 2 Forwarding Method
2.
Layer 3 Forwarding Method
Layer 2 Forwarding Method
The following characteristics will describe this option:
●
Filter
system,
Divert-from
router, and
Next-hop
router are on the same network or VLAN sharing the
same subnet
●
Divert-from
and
Inject-to
routers are two different devices
●
Next-hop
and
Inject-to
routers are the same device
Figure-2.
Logical Diagram for Layer 2 Forwarding (*
same steps as per Fig.1
)
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