Technical Tip: Limit bandwidth usage for a specifi...

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Description

This article describes how to limit bandwidth usage for a specific user.

Scope

FortiGate.

Solution

The following is a step-by-step guide on how to limit bandwidth usage for specific users:

Create addresses.

Create Per-IP Traffic Shapers. Go to Policy & Objects -> Traffic Shaping -> Traffic Shaper -> Create New.

For FortiOS 7.0 and above, change the view to 'Per-IP' and Create a New traffic shaper.

Create a Shaping Policy.

Based on this configuration, a normal user should be limited to 5Mbps and a priority user should be limited to 100Mbps.

Normal user test results:

Priority user test results:

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Technical Tip: Limit bandwidth usage for a specific user