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Pepwave MAX and Surf User Manual

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WAN Port (Section 2)

Standby State

This setting specifies the standby state of the WAN connection. The available options are

Remain connected and Disconnect. The default state is Remain Connected.

Upstream

Bandwidth

This setting specifies the data bandwidth in the outbound direction from the LAN through the

WAN interface.

Downstream

Bandwidth

This setting specifies the data bandwidth in the inbound direction from the WAN interface to

the LAN. This value is referenced as the default weight value when using the algorithm

Least Used or the algorithm Persistence (Auto) in outbound policy with Managed by

Custom Rules chosen (see Section 14.2).

Health Check

Method

This setting specifies the health check method for the WAN connection. The value of method

can be configured as Disabled, Ping, DNS Lookup, or HTTP. The default method is

Disabled. See Section 9.4 for configuration details.

PING Hosts

These fields are for specifying the target DNS servers where DNS lookups will be sent to for

health check.

If the box Use first two DNS servers as Health Check DNS Servers is checked, the first two

DNS servers will be the DNS lookup targets for checking the connection healthiness. If the

box is not checked, the field Host 1 must be filled and the field Host 2 is optional.

The connection is considered to be up if DNS responses are received from any one of the

health check DNS servers, regardless of whether the result is positive or negative.

Timeout

If a health check test cannot be completed within the specified amount of time, the test will

be treated as failed.