Basic policy-based routing

The most basic out-of-path deployment that uses policy based routing on a router is shown below. We require three interfaces on the router.

	Note All traffic between the network components in this diagram is bi-directional.

1. Request to access a location on the Internet is made on a client computer.
2. The request is sent to the router, where the source, destination is analyzed and compared to the policy configured on the router.
3. Based on the results of the analysis, the request is:
   1. sent to the Exinda appliance for optimization, and then back through the router to the requested destination.
   2. sent directly to the requested destination.

Related topics

For more information about basic policy-based routing, see the following topics: