Chapter 20 Bandwidth Management

20.12 Configuring Class Setup

The Class Setup screen displays the configured bandwidth classes by individual interface. Select an interface and click the buttons to perform the actions described next. Click “+” to expand the class tree or click “-“ to collapse the class tree. Each interface has a permanent root class. The bandwidth budget of the root class is equal to the speed you configured on the interface (see Section 20.11 on page 417 to configure the speed of the interface). Configure sub-class layers for the root class.

To add or delete child classes on an interface, click ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class Setup. The screen is shown here with example classes.

Figure 259 ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 132 ADVANCED > BW MGMT > Class Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Interface

Select an interface for which you want to set up bandwidth management classes.

 

Bandwidth management controls outgoing traffic on an interface, not incoming. So,

 

in order to limit the download bandwidth of the LAN users, set the bandwidth

 

management class on the LAN. In order to limit the upload bandwidth, set the

 

bandwidth management class on the corresponding WAN interface.

 

 

Bandwidth

This field displays whether bandwidth management on the interface you selected in

Management

the field above is enabled (Active) or not (Inactive).

 

 

 

After you select an interface, the bandwidth management classes configured for the

 

interface display. The name, bandwidth and priority display for each class. “borrow”

 

also displays if the class is set to use bandwidth from its parent class if the parent

 

class is not using up its bandwidth budget.

 

 

Add Sub-Class

Click Add Sub-classto add a sub-class.

 

 

Edit

Click Edit to configure the selected class. You cannot edit the root class.

 

 

Delete

Click Delete to delete the class and all its sub-classes. You cannot delete the root

 

class.

 

 

Statistics

Click Statistics to display the status of the selected class.

 

 

 

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