Guaranteed bandwidth - need some clarifications

Hi,

quick one:

- I have a 100Mbps pipe to the internet

- I create a rule to intercept traffic from 1 ip and give it 50Mbps of minimum guaranteed bandwidth

questions:

- what happened when that ip is not generating traffic (i.e. laptop is off)? Is the firewall giving the rest of the network 100Mbps or 50Mbps?

thanks

Best answer by gschmitt

Yes, there is a whole document clearifing how traffic shaping works

Basically there is a queue. If <IP with guaranteed bandwidth> is using below 50Mbps (in your case) it's traffic gets put lowest in the queue.

That way if <IP w/ guaranteed bandwidth> isn't using the bandwidth it gets distributed normally

New Member

Yes, there is a whole document clearifing how traffic shaping works

Basically there is a queue. If <IP with guaranteed bandwidth> is using below 50Mbps (in your case) it's traffic gets put lowest in the queue.

That way if <IP w/ guaranteed bandwidth> isn't using the bandwidth it gets distributed normally

New Member

thanks heaps

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