Traffic shapers tab
Traffic shaper
This grid lists the traffic shapers that may be assigned to network interfaces to which QoS has been applied.
DEFINITION
Traffic shaping refers to how the volume of traffic is controlled on a computer network in order to optimize or guarantee performance, lower latency or increase usable bandwidth by delaying packets that meet certain criteria. More specifically, traffic shaping refers to any action on network traffic that imposes an additional delay on these packets so that they comply with a predetermined constraint (contractual or related to a certain type of traffic).
Possible operations
You can Add or Delete traffic shapers. If you wish to delete a traffic shaper used on a network interface, a warning message will ask you to change the QoS configuration before deleting it.
The traffic shapers displayed can also be filtered by entering a character string in the filter field.
Grid
Name | Name given to the traffic shaper. |
Outgoing bandwidth |
Indicate the outgoing bandwidth reserved for the traffic shaper. When a traffic shaper is defined for the interface linked to the Internet access router, you are advised to set this value to 95% of the maximum bandwidth on the Internet link. |
Unit |
Select the outgoing bandwidth unit assigned to the traffic shaper:
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Incoming bandwidth |
Indicate the incoming bandwidth reserved for the traffic shaper. When a traffic shaper is defined for the interface linked to the Internet access router, you are advised to set this value to 95% of the maximum bandwidth on the Internet link. |
Unit |
Select the incoming bandwidth unit assigned to the traffic shaper:
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Interfaces with QoS
In this grid, you can define the interfaces to which QoS is applied, as well as traffic shaping, queues or queues for TCP ACK traffic to use for each of these interfaces.
Possible operations
You can Add or Delete Interface/Traffic shaper/Queue/ACK queue associations.
Grid
Interface | Select the interface to which you want to apply QoS. |
Traffic shaper |
Select one of the traffic shapers defined on the firewall. |
Default queue |
Select one of the queues defined on the firewall. |
Default ACK queue |
Select one of the queues defined on the firewall. |