The Net Balancer may be set to operate in one of the following two modes to regulate which connection must be selected to satisfy a specific Internet request:
Load Balancing and Failover: The Internet access requests are automatically balanced based on the weight (Weight Value) of each gateway. In case a gateway is damaged, it is excluded from automatic balancing to avoid loss of IP packets. The assignment of a certain type of traffic may be manually overridden, based on proper criteria (source IP, destination IP, TCP/UDP ports, ...);
Failover: only one shows an active link (the one with the highest weight value among those that are not at Fault). The other are kept as Spare, ready to operate in case the active connection is interrupted. Although no automatic balancing takes place with this setting, traffic may still be balanced as explained below.