Example 1 – adding limiters

Although it is generally recommended that you use the traffic shaper wizards when getting started with traffic shaping, for this exercise we will avoid using them, since the rules the wizard will implement would require significant modification. We will begin by navigating to Firewall | Traffic Shaper and selecting the Limiters tab.

We require that developers and engineering receive 100 Mbps of downstream bandwidth, with 60 Mbps going to developers. We also will gives developers and engineering 25 Mbps of upstream bandwidth, with 15 Mbps going to developers. To do this, we will set up two limiters: a limiter for download bandwidth and one for upload bandwidth. Each of these limiters will have two children (one ...

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