Chapter 28 Application Patrol

•Inbound traffic is limited to 500 kbs. The connection initiator is on the LAN1 so inbound means the traffic traveling from the WAN to the LAN1.

Figure 268 LAN1 to WAN, Outbound 200 kbps, Inbound 500 kbps

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Inbound

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500 kbps

Bandwidth Management Priority

•The ZyWALL gives bandwidth to higher-priority traffic first, until it reaches its configured bandwidth rate.

•Then lower-priority traffic gets bandwidth.

•The ZyWALL uses a fairness-based (round-robin) scheduler to divide bandwidth among traffic flows with the same priority.

•The ZyWALL automatically treats traffic with bandwidth management disabled as priority 7 (the lowest priority).

Maximize Bandwidth Usage

Maximize bandwidth usage allows applications with maximize bandwidth usage enabled to “borrow” any unused bandwidth on the out-going interface.

After each application gets its configured bandwidth rate, the ZyWALL uses the fairness- based scheduler to divide any unused bandwidth on the out-going interface amongst applications that need more bandwidth and have maximize bandwidth usage enabled.

Unused bandwidth is divided equally. Higher priority traffic does not get a larger portion of the unused bandwidth.

Bandwidth Management Behavior

The following sections show how bandwidth management behaves with various settings. For example, you configure DMZ to WAN policies for FTP servers A and B. Each server tries to send 1000 kbps, but the WAN is set to a maximum

 

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