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 |
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Direction | Select the direction of traffic to which you want to apply bandwidth management. |
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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. |
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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. |
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# | This is the number of an individual bandwidth management rule. |
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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. |
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Destination Port | This is the port number of the destination. 0 means any destination port. |
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Priority | This is the priority of this rule. |
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Bandwidtht (kbps) | This is the maximum bandwidth allowed for the rule in kbps. |
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