Specifications

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ip-policy set

Purpose

Controls how packets are distributed among the next hop gateways in an IP policy and

queries the availability of next-hop gateways.

Format

ip-policy <name> set [pinger on] [load-policy first-available|round-robin|

ip-hash sip|dip|both]

Mode

Configure

Description

If you specify more than one next-hop gateway in an IP policy, you can use the ip-policy

set command to control how the load is distributed among the next-hop gateways. You

can cause each new flow to use the first available next-hop gateway in the ip-policy

permit statement, or you can cause flows to use all the next-hop gateways in the ip-policy

permit statement sequentially. You can also control which information in the IP packet to

use to determine the next-hop gateway.

In addition, you can use the ip-policy set command to have the SSR query the availability

of the next-hop gateways specified in an IP policy. When this option is active, the SSR

periodically queries the next-hop gateways via ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTS. Only gateways

that respond to these requests are used for forwarding packets.

Parameters

<name>

Is the name of an IP policy.

pinger on

Causes the SSR to check the availability of next-hop gateways by querying them with

ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTS. Only gateways that respond to these requests are used for

forwarding packets.