routing port 445 traffic specifically

[Filmad]

Hi,

We have a network with 2 gateways - 1 MPLS 1 aDSL, the core is a 4548 stack which has some simple routes defined, we wanted to route specific traffic (port 445 microsoft-ds) only via the aDSL all other via the MPLS, I have set up a static to the specific server address, but going forward we wanted to route the protocol to a specific gateway, any ideas

All help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

[Michael McNamara]

Hi Filmad and welcome to the forums!

You can use a more specific route (as it sounds like you've done already) other than that there aren't a lot of options. Also the route will covey all traffic to that specific host not just TCP/445.

Good Luck!

[MisterAG]

Most full blown routing platforms will allow you to perform 'policy routing', which is static routing for packets based on things like source/destination addresses and source/destination ports. I don't think that the 4500 switches can do policy routing at this time.

I'm finding that the 4500 / 5500 switches are good at switching / routing packets at speed, but don't work as I would expect for any real decision making.

We use Fortigate and Vyatta solutions here as edge devices, and they seem to work fine for what we need them to do - including policy routing. Why in particular are you tring to send SMB traffic across a different link? Have you got a WAN extention to another building?