P-662H/HW-D Series User’s Guide

19.8 Bandwidth Management Rule Setup

You must use the Bandwidth Management Summary screen to enable bandwidth management on an interface before you can configure rules for that interface.

Click Advanced > Bandwidth MGMT > Rule Setup to open the following screen.

Figure 160 Bandwidth Management: Rule Setup

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 121 Bandwidth Management: Rule Setup

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Direction

Select the direction of traffic to which you want to apply bandwidth management.

 

 

Service

Select a service for your rule or you can select User Defined to go to the screen

 

where you can define your own.

Priority

Select a priority from the drop down list box. Choose High, Mid or Low.

 

 

Bandwidtht (kbps)

Specify the maximum bandwidth allowed for the rule in kbps. The

 

recommendation is a setting between 20 kbps and 20000 kbps for an individual

 

rule.

Add

Click this button to add a rule to the following table.

 

 

#

This is the number of an individual bandwidth management rule.

 

 

Active

This displays whether the rule is enabled. Select this check box to have the

 

ZyXEL Device apply this bandwidth management rule.

 

Enable a bandwidth management rule to give traffic that matches the rule priority

 

over traffic that does not match the rule.

 

Enabling a bandwidth management rule also allows you to control the maximum

 

amounts of bandwidth that can be used by traffic that matches the rule.

Rule Name

This is the name of the rule.

 

 

Destination Port

This is the port number of the destination. 0 means any destination port.

 

 

Priority

This is the priority of this rule.

 

 

Bandwidtht (kbps)

This is the maximum bandwidth allowed for the rule in kbps.

 

 

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