User's Manual Part 1

Using Traffic Shaper
Chapter 5: Managing Your Network 121
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dwidth limit, connections belonging to that class will not be allocated
her bandwidth, even if there is unused bandwidth available. For example,
can limit all traffic used by Peer-To-Peer file-sharing applications to a
cific rate, such as 512 kilobit per second. Traffic Shaper also allows you
ssign a “Delay Sensitivity” value to a class, indicatin
nections belonging to the class should be given precedence over
nections belonging to other classes.
ffic Shaper supports DiffServ (Differentiated Services) Packet Marking.
fServ marks packets as belonging to a certain Quality of Service class.
ese packets are then granted priority on the public network according to
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Traffic Shaper for the Internet connection.
n enable Traffic Shaper for incoming or outgoing connections.
ing Internet Setup on page 66.
QoS classes that reflect your communication needs.
tively, use the four built-in QoS classes.
ou ca
See Adding and Editing a Class on page 122.
Use Allow rules to assign different types of connections to QoS
classes.
For example, if Traffic Shaper is enabled for outgoing traffi
create an Allow rule associating all outgoing VPN traffic with the Urgent
QoS class, then Traffic Shaper will handle outgoing VPN traffic as
specified in the bandwidth policy for the Urgent class.
See Adding and Editing Rules on page 157.
in the rule.
Note: Traffic Shaper must be enabled for the direction of traffic specified