P-661H/HW Series User’s Guide

15.8.1 Rule Configuration

Click the Edit icon or select User define in the Service field to configure a bandwidth management rule. Use bandwidth rules to allocate specific amounts of bandwidth capacity (bandwidth budgets) to specific applications and/or subnets.

Figure 138 Bandwidth Management Rule Configuration

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 101 Bandwidth Management Rule Configuration

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Rule Configuration

 

 

 

Active

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

Use the auto-generated name or enter a descriptive name of up to 20

 

alphanumeric characters, including spaces.

BW Budget

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.

Priority

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

 

 

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