User Manual Part 1
Table Of Contents
- Check Point Safe@Office User Guide 8.0
- Copyright & Trademarks
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance
- Safe@Office 500 Product Family
- Product Features
- Wireless Features
- Optional Security Services
- Software Requirements
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500 Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500 ADSL Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W ADSL Appliance
- Contacting Technical Support
- Safe@Office Security
- Installing and Setting Up Safe@Office
- Getting Started
- Configuring the Internet Connection
- Managing Your Network
- Using Bridges
- Configuring High Availability
- Using Traffic Shaper
- Working with Wireless Networks
- Viewing Reports
- Viewing Logs
- Setting Your Security Policy
Setting Up Traffic Shaper
Chapter 9: Using Traffic Shaper 253
Setting Up Traffic Shaper
To set up Traffic Shaper
1. Enable Traffic Shaper for the Internet connection, using the procedure Using
Internet Setup on page 102.
You can enable Traffic Shaper for incoming or outg
oing connections.
• When enabling Traffic Shaper for outgoing traffic:
Specify a rate (in kilobits/second) slightly lower than your Internet connection's
maximum measured upstream speed.
• When enabling Traffic Shaper for incoming traffic:
Specify a rate (in kilobits/second) slightly lower than your Internet connection's
maximum measured downstream speed.
It is recommended to try different rates in order to determine which ones provide the
best results.
Note: Traffic Shaper cannot control the number or type of packets it receives from
the Internet; it can only affect the rate of incoming traffic by dropping received
packets. This makes the shaping of inbound traffic less accurate than the shaping
of outbound traffic. It is therefore recommended to enable traffic shaping for
incoming traffic only if necessary.
2. If you are using Safe@Office 500 with Power Pack, you can add QoS classes
that reflect your communication needs, or modify the four predefined QoS
classes.
See Adding and Editing Classes on page 256.
Note: If you are using Safe@Office 500, you have Simplified Traffic Shaper, and you
cannot add or modify the classes. To add or modify classes, upgrade to
Safe@Office 500 with Power Pack, which supports Advanced Traffic Shaper.
3. Use Allow or Allow and Forward rules to assign different types of connections
to QoS classes.