Chapter 16 Bandwidth Management
16.5.1 Priority Levels
Traffic with a higher priority gets through faster while traffic with a lower priority is dropped if the network is congested.
The following describes the priorities that you can apply to traffic that the NBG- 417N forwards out through an interface.
•High - Typically used for voice traffic or video that is especially sensitive to jitter (jitter is the variations in delay).
•Low - This is typically used for all other traffic that are not
16.5.2User Defined Service Rule Configuration
If you want to edit a bandwidth management rule for specific protocols on an IP or IP range, click the Edit icon in the Bandwidth Allocation table of the Advanced screen. The following screen displays.
Figure 85 Management > Bandwidth MGMT > Advanced: Allocation Setup
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 57 Management > Bandwidth MGMT > Advanced: Allocation Setup
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
Active | Select this check box to turn on this bandwidth management rule. |
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Direction | Enter whether you want to apply the rule to uplink or downlink traffic. |
| To LAN applies bandwidth management to traffic from WAN to LAN/ |
| WLAN (i.e., downlink). |
| To WAN applies bandwidth management to traffic from LAN/WLAN to |
| WAN (i.e., uplink). |
| Select Both applies bandwidth management to traffic that the NBG- |
| 417N forwards to both the LAN and the WAN. |
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LAN IP Range | Specify the range of IP addresses for which the bandwidth management |
| rule applies. |
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Protocol | Select the protocol (TCP, UDP, SMTP, HTTP, POP3, FTP or ALL) for |
| which the bandwidth management rule applies. |
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