Overview of basic policy-based routing

A basic policy-based routing out-of-path deployment is depicted in the network diagram below. Deploying your Exinda Appliance in this topology requires three interfaces on the router.

Basic policy-based routing

• Request to access a location on the Internet is made on a client computer.
• The request is sent to the router where the source and destination are analyzed and compared to the policy configured on the router.
• Based on the results of the analysis, the request is:

• sent to the Exinda appliance for optimization, then back through the router to the requested destination.
• sent directly to the requested destination.

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

• Directing traffic with policy-based routing
• Configuring the router for basic PBR topology
• Configuring the out-of-path topology for policy-based routing