Traffic Shaping Policy, Shared Shaper and Per-IP Shaper

Hi Chris,

assuming you do not have a bunch of Youtubers in your network :) and you only want to shape streams from from Youtube (not uploading of videos), then you will need to create a shaping policy for Youtube application with reversed 100Mbps shaper and 2Mbps per-ip shaper .  

Example of shaping policy that should work for your needs:

config firewall shaping-policy     edit 0         set name "shape_youtube"         set service "ALL"         set application 31077                       # Youtube app ID         set dstintf <your_WAN_port>                 # Interface(s) towards your ISP(s)         set traffic-shaper-reverse <shaper_name>    # Your 100Mbps shared shaper         set per-ip-shaper <shaper_name>             # Your 2Mbps per-ip shaper         set srcaddr "all"         set dstaddr "all"     next end

Note: For application-based shaping policy to work correctly, ensure your firewall policy has application control enabled. 

Hello @CvB,

You can either use a shared shaper with a maximum bandwidth of 100 Mbps for all YouTube traffic, which would be shared among all clients accessing YouTube, or you can use a per-IP shaper to limit each client's YouTube bandwidth to 2 Mbps. However, you cannot combine both methods within the same traffic shaping policy.

Thanks