Simplified routing avoids situations when a packet traverses a SteelHead more than once—this behavior is called packet ricochet. In environments where the SteelHead is installed in a subnet different than the clients and servers, simplified routing prevents packet ricochet for optimized traffic from the SteelHead.
Here there is a Packet Ricochet When the SteelHead Default Gateway Is on the WAN shows an example of packet ricochet when the SteelHead default gateway is configured for the WAN router, the host sits on a different network than the SteelHead, and simplified routing is not enabled.
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