Technical Tip: Traffic shaping considerations
| Description | Traffic shaping considerations |
| Scope | FortiGate units running FortiOS version 4.0 MR3 or 5.0.x |
| Solution | To ensure that traffic shaping is working at its best, verify that the Ethernet interface statistics are clean of errors, collisions, and buffer overruns. If these are not clean, then FortiGate unit and switch settings may require adjusting. For details, see the Fortinet Knowledge Base article How to best configure Ethernet (Full/Half duplex, Auto-negotiation) settings. The following CLI commands display Ethernet interface statistics: diagnose netlink device list diagnose netlink interface list diagnose hardware deviceinfo nic |